Three “competing” auxiliaries of a non-canonical passive
Three “competing” auxiliaries of a non-canonical passive
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非规范被动语态的三个“竞争”助动词
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10.1075/la.205.04len
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Alexandra N.
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A peculiarity of the German GET passive is the fact that it has three competing auxiliaries for the dative passive: kriegen ‘to get/receive’, bekommen ‘to get/receive’and erhalten ‘to receive’. At present, we know only little about the relevant linguistic and socio-pragmatic factors which contribute to the GET passive auxiliary selection. What we know in general about the competition of the three verbs is restricted to their use as full verbs. Kriegen, bekommen and erhalten are not only passive auxiliaries, but they are also primarily lexical verbs, often with a transferential meaning indicating a possessional transfer from an old possessor to a new one. As lexical full verbs, kriegen and bekommen are synonyms in many occurrences and in many varieties, whereas the lexical verb erhalten bearing a GET meaning is restricted to more or less “real” cases of transfer caused by an implicit or explicit giver. Hence, at least in some contexts close to the standard language, it is possible to use all three verbs in cases of receiving a concrete, verbal or abstract “transferred” object (eg a present, an order or blows), at least if the recipient’s contribution to the transferential act is more or less passive. Otherwise, if he/she is also the active agent of the GET action (see 2.1 d), only kriegen and bekommen can be used as lexical verbs. In the case of “getting a fever”(2.2 a), transitive kriegen and bekommen express the beginning of a somatic, mental or other changing of an experiencer, without a (knowingly or explicit) extraneous cause. The semantics of the two full verbs kriegen and bekommen can, in this case, be paraphrased by unterscheiden sich dadurch grundsätzlich von anderen Passivsätzen [...].”(Duden-Grammar 72005: 556f.= Duden-Grammar 82009: 550f.)