Bunčić, Daniel 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-8907
(2018).
Impersonal constructions in Slavic languages and the agentivity of the verb.
In:
Deutsche Beiträge zum 16. Internationalen Slavistenkongress, Belgrad 2018,
pp. 101-110.
Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz.
ISBN 978-3-447-11039-6
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Abstract
The paper deals with impersonal constructions like Polish mówiono, Serbo-Croatian govorilo se and Russian govorili ‘they said’. Grammatical descriptions agree that these constructions require an implicit human agent and are ungrammatical without one. However, it is shown here that these impersonals are not always good even with a human agent because their grammaticality also depends on the verb. Both acceptability judgement tests and corpus studies show a clear agentivity cline: The more features of agent prominence the verb entails, the more acceptable (and relatively the more frequent) the construction is.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
| Creators: | Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code |
| Editors: | Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kempgen, Sebastian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wingender, Monika UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Franz, Norbert UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-112820 |
| Title of Book: | Deutsche Beiträge zum 16. Internationalen Slavistenkongress, Belgrad 2018 |
| Page Range: | pp. 101-110 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| Publisher: | Harrassowitz |
| Place of Publication: | Wiesbaden |
| ISBN: | 978-3-447-11039-6 |
| Language: | English |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Slavisches Institut Collaborative Research Centers > CRC 1252: Prominence in Language > TP B01 |
| Subjects: | Language, Linguistics Other languages |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Keywords Language prominence English agentivity English Polish language English Russian language English Serbo-Croatian language English animacy English verb semantics English |
| Funders: | DFG |
| Projects: | SFB 1252 Prominence in Language |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/11282 |
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