Verboten reflexivization and hidden meaning in German reflexive inchoative, zu-excessive and particle verb structures
The paper presents a compact yet comprehensive analysis of the systematically arising change of state or modal meanings of reflexive inchoative constructions, zu-excessive constructions and particle verb constructions in German (Brandt 2019)....
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The paper presents a compact yet comprehensive analysis of the systematically arising change of state or modal meanings of reflexive inchoative constructions, zu-excessive constructions and particle verb constructions in German (Brandt 2019). Verboten reflexivization links a lower thematic role to a higher grammatical function and associated lesser marking illegally. As a consequence, the negation (complement) of a property that is independently coded in the verbal projection cannot be locally interpreted. The corresponding logical form banks off the interface and is interpreted in the structurally next higher syntactic-semantic cycle where indexical information regarding anchoring to times, worlds or thresholds is dealt with. The intransparent semantics of the constructions under discussion is thus the effect of literally recycling a logical form the ex situ interpretation of which provides an economical alternative to a more transparent coding.
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