WAGNER, Roland Anton. On the Cross-Linguistic Predictability of Functionally Equivalent Structures: Decausativization in French and German as a Test Case for Formal and Functional Grammars. In Joseph Emonds, Markéta Janebová. Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2013. Olomouc: Palacký University Olomouc. p. 143-154. ISBN 978-80-244-4059-0. 2014.
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Original name On the Cross-Linguistic Predictability of Functionally Equivalent Structures: Decausativization in French and German as a Test Case for Formal and Functional Grammars
Authors WAGNER, Roland Anton (276 Germany, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Olomouc, Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2013. p. 143-154, 12 pp. 2014.
Publisher Palacký University Olomouc
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14410/14:00082030
Organization unit Faculty of Education
ISBN 978-80-244-4059-0
UT WoS 000362508800011
Keywords (in Czech) decausativization; reflexives; comparative linguistics; causative alternation;
Keywords in English dekauzativizace; reflexiva; komparativní lingvistika; kauzativní alternace;
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
The aim of the paper is to evaluate the cross-linguistic predictive power of generative and functionalist theories with respect to one tightly limited area of interest: the causative alternation. Several recent studies of decausativization are reviewed in order to determine whether the formal marking of a decausative in a target language, namely the appearance of a reflexive, can be predicted from the type of formal marking of a translational equivalent in a source language. It will be demonstrated that the generative analyses under consideration do not allow for predictions of the intended kind, as the necessary information cannot be deduced from the formal apparatus but is implicitly presupposed already at the input level of the suggested models. Functionalist analyses, on the other hand, allow for probabilistic predictions, they fail, however, to formulate precise predictions on the formal marking of individual lexical items.
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