Dokument: Alternations of object-experiencer predicates. Studies on detransitivization and light verb constructions in the psych domain
| Titel: | Alternations of object-experiencer predicates. Studies on detransitivization and light verb constructions in the psych domain | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=71757 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20251218-100326-7 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Dissertationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten » Dissertation | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Wiskandt, Niklas Norbert [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beitragende: | Fleischhauer, Jens [Gutachter] Univ.-Prof. Dr. von Prince, Kilu [Gutachter] | |||||||
| Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 400 Sprache » 410 Linguistik | |||||||
| Beschreibung: | This dissertation investigates the constructional variation of object-experiencer psych predicates in Germanic and Romance languages, with a focus on German. The construction types in focus are synthetic object-experiencer verbs, such as German "ärgern" (‘to annoy’) and "freuen" (‘to gladden’), their reflexive-marked detransitivized constructions such as "sich ärgern" (‘to be annoyed’) and "sich freuen" (‘to be happy’), and light verb constructions encompassing an emotion noun, such as "in Ärger versetzen" (‘to make angry’, lit. ‘to transfer into anger’) and "Freude machen" (‘to make happy’, lit. ‘to make joy’). Six research papers compose the main body of the dissertation, grouped into three pairs.
The first pair of research papers studies the properties of the detransitivized construction in the psych alternation. Wiskandt (2021a) conducts a study on a sample of German object-experiencer verbs with respect to their ability to form a reflexive-marked detransitivized construction, which the paper hypothesizes has the role of an anticausative. It identifies several lexical restrictions that block the ability to detransitivize. Wiskandt (2026) tackles the question of the grammatical nature of psych detransitivization in Germanic and Romance languages by taking a typological perspective. Based on a sample of languages from different families, the paper shows that psych detransitivization regularly syncretizes with anticausative voice functions. The second pair of research papers studies patterns of object-experiencer light verb constructions. Wiskandt & Turus (2023) study the compatibility of three common patterns of object-experiencer light verb constructions with a sample of emotion nouns in German. Wiskandt (2025) takes a cross-linguistic perspective on two further patterns of object-experiencer light verb constructions. Based on three Germanic and three Romance languages, it shows cross-linguistic regularities with respect to compatibility of emotion nouns with light verb construction patterns, but also demonstrates that differences are between individual languages rather than between families. The third pair of research papers studies the relation between the constructions of the psych alternation and lexically corresponding object-experiencer light verb constructions. Both papers work with German data. Wiskandt & Turus (2025) investigate the properties of the most productive pattern of German object-experiencer light verb constructions described in Wiskandt & Turus (2023), and their relation to lexically corresponding synthetic object-experiencer verbs. In a quantitative corpus study, the paper demonstrates how semantic properties of the arguments predict the choice between verbs and light verb constructions. Based on the corpus study and on a set of semantic tests, it argues for an analysis of the LVC pattern as causative marking. Wiskandt (submitted) proposes to analyze the interaction between transitive object-experiencer verbs, their detransitivized constructions, and corresponding object-experiencer light verb constructions as a complex diathesis alternation. In this alternation, the function of the detransitivized construction is that of an anticausative voice, which takes up a hypothesis of Wiskandt (2021a) relates to the findings of Wiskandt (2026). The function of the light verb construction patterns is that of a causative voice, which relates to the findings of Wiskandt & Turus (2025). | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Philosophische Fakultät » Institut für Sprache und Information » Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 18.12.2025 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 18.12.2025 | |||||||
| Promotionsantrag am: | 31.07.2025 | |||||||
| Datum der Promotion: | 10.12.2025 |
