Dokument: Causatives of transitives: cross-linguistic analysis and implementation
| Titel: | Causatives of transitives: cross-linguistic analysis and implementation | |||||||
| Weiterer Titel: | Causatives of transitives: cross-linguistic analysis and implementation | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=73356 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20260610-075839-8 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Dissertationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten » Dissertation | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Generalova, Valeriia [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beitragende: | Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer [Gutachter] Prof. Dr. Van Valin, Robert D. [Gutachter] | |||||||
| Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 400 Sprache » 410 Linguistik | |||||||
| Beschreibungen: | Languages differ with respect to the number of arguments they allow in a simple clause. Two-argument clauses (a subject and a direct object) are attested in the vast majority of languages, whereas languages allowing three-argument cores are less frequent. Hence, adding an argument to an intransitive verb would yield a two-argument construction, which would probably look like a prototypical transitive construction attested in this language. However, adding an argument to a transitive verb is not that straightforward. This thesis investigates the argument structure of constructions with causative verbs morphologically derived from transitive bases from the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (Van Valin 2005; Van Valin 2023b). The main method of re-analyzing causative constructions in each language is relating them not to the constructions they are derived from but to other three-argument patterns attested in the same language (if there are any). In the absence of three-argument patterns, two-argument constructions featuring the same means of argument marking as in the constructions in question are considered. The method is inspired by Kemmer and Verhagen (1994) and developed to suit structurally varied languages. As a result, the thesis offers a functionally motivated enumeration of argument-marking strategies in causatives-of-transitives used by different languages. Language-related observations are formulated in the spirit of comparative concepts (Haspelmath 2010) to be compatible with further cross-theoretical studies. Construction-related observations are presented as Constructional Schemas, contributing to the classical RRG and to the RRG-inspired implementation presented in the second part of the thesis. The suggested implementation relies on the formalization of RRG as a Tree-Wrapping Grammar (Kallmeyer and Osswald 2023) and uses XMG-2 (Crabbé et al. 2013; Petitjean, Duchier, and Parmentier 2016). This is the most multilingual XMG project to date, and it can be easily expanded to cover more languages and other grammatical phenomena.Languages differ with respect to the number of arguments they allow in a simple clause. Two-argument clauses (a subject and a direct object) are attested in the vast majority of languages, whereas languages allowing three-argument cores are less frequent. Hence, adding an argument to an intransitive verb would yield a two-argument construction, which would probably look like a prototypical transitive construction attested in this language. However, adding an argument to a transitive verb is not that straightforward. This thesis investigates the argument structure of constructions with causative verbs morphologically derived from transitive bases from the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (Van Valin 2005; Van Valin 2023b). The main method of re-analyzing causative constructions in each language is relating them not to the constructions they are derived from but to other three-argument patterns attested in the same language (if there are any). In the absence of three-argument patterns, two-argument constructions featuring the same means of argument marking as in the constructions in question are considered. The method is inspired by Kemmer and Verhagen (1994) and developed to suit structurally varied languages. As a result, the thesis offers a functionally motivated enumeration of argument-marking strategies in causatives-of-transitives used by different languages. Language-related observations are formulated in the spirit of comparative concepts (Haspelmath 2010) to be compatible with further cross-theoretical studies. Construction-related observations are presented as Constructional Schemas, contributing to the classical RRG and to the RRG-inspired implementation presented in the second part of the thesis. The suggested implementation relies on the formalization of RRG as a Tree-Wrapping Grammar (Kallmeyer and Osswald 2023) and uses XMG-2 (Crabbé et al. 2013; Petitjean, Duchier, and Parmentier 2016). This is the most multilingual XMG project to date, and it can be easily expanded to cover more languages and other grammatical phenomena. | |||||||
| 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: | 10.06.2026 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 10.06.2026 | |||||||
| Promotionsantrag am: | 08.08.2023 | |||||||
| Datum der Promotion: | 17.10.2023 |
