Gradient auxiliary selection and impersonal passivization in German: an experimental investigation
Gradient auxiliary selection and impersonal passivization in German: an experimental investigation
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德语中的梯度辅助选择和非人称钝化：实验研究
DOI：
10.1017/s0022226702001676
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
A. Sorace
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作者：
Frank Keller;A. Sorace
本文的主要目的是提供实验证据，分裂不及物性在德语中的两个句法反射-完成体助动词的选择和非人称被动结构-是敏感的动词类的体/主题层次。我们发现，有一个分裂之间的“核心”动词，引起从母语类别的直觉，和“中间”动词表现出梯度。此外，北方和南方德语在助动词选择方面的跨方言差异往往只发生在中间动词上。我们认为，这些研究结果提供支持的观点，即unperficative/unergative区别是相当不稳定的，往往比假设，并建议，如那些直接来自unperficative假设的词汇-句法界面的投影理论可能无法解释的数据所表现出的系统性变化。
The main purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence that two syntactic reflexes of split intransitivity in German – the selection of perfective auxiliaries and the impersonal passive construction – are sensitive to an aspectual/thematic hierarchy of verb classes. We show that there is a split between ‘core’ verbs that elicit categorical intuitions from native speakers, and ‘intermediate’ verbs that exhibit gradience. Furthermore, crossdialectal differences between northern and southern German with respect to auxiliary selection tend to occur only with intermediate verbs. We argue that these findings lend support to the view that the unaccusative/unergative distinction is considerably more unstable than often assumed, and suggest that projectionist theories of the lexicon-syntax interface such as those directly derived from the Unaccusative Hypothesis may not be able to account for the systematic variation exhibited by the data.