Discomposition Redressed: Hidden Change, Modality, and Comparison in German
Patrick Brandt
Dec 2019 · Studien zur deutschen Sprache Book 81 · Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
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Modern theoretical linguistics lives by the insight that the meanings of complex expressions derive from the meanings of their parts and the way these are composed. However, the currently dominating theories of the syntax-semantics interface hastily relegate important aspects of meaning which cannot readily be aligned with visible structure to empty projecting heads non-reductively (mainstream Generative Grammar) or to the syntactic construction holistically (Construction Grammar). This book develops an alternative, compositional analysis of the hidden aspectual-temporal, modal and comparative meanings of a range of productive constructions of which pseudorefl exive, excessive and directional complement constructions take center stage. Accordingly, a contradiction-inducing hence semantically problematic part of literally coded meaning is locally ignored and systematically realized "expatriately" with respect to parts of structure that achieve the indexical anchoring of propositional contents in terms of times, worlds and standards of comparison, thus yielding the observed hidden meanings.
About the author
Dr. Patrick Brandt arbeitet am Insititut für Deutsche Sprache in der Abteilung Grammatik und lehrt als Privatdozent im Bereich Germanistische Linguistik an der Universität Mannheim.
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