The grammar of object experiencer psych verbs: theoretical, computational and experimental analyses of reflexive binding in German

客体体验者心理动词的语法：德语反身结合的理论、计算和实验分析

• 批准号: 437144413
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Tibor Kiss
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Linguistic Data Science Lab (LDSL)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/437144413?language=en
• 关键词: grammar; object; experiencer; psych; verbs

The realization of reflexive pronouns within stimulus arguments of object experiencer psych verbs (OE psych verbs) has become the topic of a controversial debate, since the possible binder, the experiencer argument, appears to be an object binding into the subject. The grammaticality of the construction is attested for many languages, but its status in German has remained unclear. German can thus be employed as a touchstone for comparative theories of reflexive binding. It should be noted, however, that there are very few proposals concerning the theoretical implications of a possible grammaticality or ungrammaticality of the pattern in German, and these suffer from an insufficient empirical basis. The two main goals of the present proposals are thus to provide a solid data base for the construction in German and to use the data base to develop a model of reflexive binding that takes the (un-)grammaticality of binding into the stimulus of OE psych verbs in German into account. It is necessary to combine analyses of various aspects that have hitherto been studied in isolation only. Analyses of reflexivization in German do not cover word order regularities, and vice versa. The same holds for the inclusion of the verb’s semantics, and alternative subcategorization patterns. The project will thus combine these isolated theoretical strands. The verbs will receive a corpus-based analysis, which focuses in particular on their semantics and their possibly subcategorization frames. Even more problematic is the concept of a 'picture noun'. It has been assumed to be a trigger for the construction but has never received a proper definition. Combining methods from computational linguistics and corpus linguistics, we aim to provide a formal characterization of the pertinent nouns, which also takes competing constructions and selectional restrictions imposed by the verbs into account. These analyses do not only provide a solid basis for the two major ingredients of the construction, the OE psych verbs and the 'picture nouns', they also form the prerequisites for three experimental studies that concern the order of arguments, the reflexivization into the stimulus, and finally possible selectional restrictions on animacy in OE psych verb constructions. Experimental studies are the methods of choice here since we have to deal with constructions including at least three problems that are thus extremely unlikely to occur in corpora showing all required conditions. The results of the experimental studies will then serve to define an empirically based theoretical model of reflexivization within the stimulus of OE psych verbs in German. Linguistics would then not only be able to determine the grammaticality status of the construction in German, but also its implications for a comparative theory of reflexive binding.

在客体体验者心理动词（OE心理动词）的刺激论元中，反身代词的实现已经成为一个有争议的话题，因为可能的粘合剂，体验者论元，似乎是一个绑定到主语的客体。 这个结构的语法性在许多语言中都得到了证实，但它在德语中的地位仍然不清楚。因此，德语可以作为反身约束力比较理论的试金石。然而，应该指出的是，关于德语中该模式可能的语法性或非语法性的理论含义的建议很少，而且这些建议缺乏足够的经验基础。因此，本建议的两个主要目标是提供一个坚实的数据基础，在德国的建设和使用的数据库开发一个模型的反射约束，需要（非）语法约束到刺激OE心理动词在德国考虑。有必要把迄今为止只孤立研究的各个方面的分析联合收割机结合起来。德语中的反身化分析不包括词序的反身化，反之亦然。这同样适用于动词语义的包含，以及可供选择的次范畴化模式。因此，该项目将把这些孤立的理论链联合收割机结合起来。这些动词将接受基于语料库的分析，特别侧重于它们的语义和可能的次范畴化框架。更有问题的是“图画名词”的概念。它被认为是一个触发器的建设，但从来没有收到一个适当的定义。结合计算语言学和语料库语言学的方法，我们的目标是提供一个正式的表征相关名词，这也考虑到竞争的建设和选择的限制所施加的动词。 这些分析不仅提供了一个坚实的基础，建设的两个主要成分，OE心理动词和“图片名词”，他们也形成了三个实验研究的先决条件，关注的顺序参数，反身化到刺激，并最终可能选择性限制在OE心理动词结构的生命性。实验研究是这里的首选方法，因为我们必须处理的结构，包括至少三个问题，因此极不可能出现在语料库显示所有必要的条件。实验研究的结果将有助于确定一个经验为基础的理论模型内的反身性刺激的OE心理动词在德国。这样，语言学不仅可以确定德语中该结构的语法地位，还可以确定其对反身约束比较理论的影响。