Onpersoonlijke datief-nominatiefwerkwoorden in het hedendaagse Duits: definitie, inventaris en semantische classificatie
- Joren Somers
Abstract
Several studies have drawn attention to the fact that subjecthood is not necessarily associated with nominative case-marking (Andrews 1976, Þráinsson 1979, Zaenen, Maling & Þráinsson 1985, Sigurðsson 1989, inter alia).1 This article seeks to contribute to the study of non-canonically case marked subjects by zooming in on nominative-dative verbs in Present-Day with a subject-like oblique argument (henceforth: impersonal dative-nominative verbs). The aim of this article is twofold. First, I present an exhaustive list of all German impersonal dative-nominative verbs, and secondly, I aim to classify them according to the semantic typology suggested by Barðdal et al. (2016). The results show that impersonal dative-nominative verbs are far more numerous than hitherto assumed, and that their semantic distribution gravitates towards meanings pertaining to emotions, cognitive processes, and contexts of gain and benefit.
How to Cite:
Somers, J., (2021) “Onpersoonlijke datief-nominatiefwerkwoorden in het hedendaagse Duits: definitie, inventaris en semantische classificatie”, Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis 75(1), 211–238. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/kzm.87034
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