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Kompositionalität -- die Reduktion der Bedeutung komplexer Ausdrücke auf deren Teile und Struktur -- macht Schöpfungskraft und Systematizität natürlicher Sprachen erklärlich. Krisenhaft jedoch verbannen die derzeit dominierenden Grammatiktheorien schwer zuzuordnende Bedeutungsaspekte an nicht-reduktive, stipulative Mechanismen. Das Buch bietet eine kompositionelle Theorie der versteckten und bislang unerklärten aspektuell-temporalen, modalen und komparativen Bedeutung einer Reihe produktiver Konstruktionen, darunter Pseudoreflexiva, Exzessiva und Strukturen mit direktionalen Ergänzungen.
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Modern theoretical linguistics lives by the insight that the meanings of complex expressions derive from the meanings of their parts and the way these are composed. However, the currently dominating theories of the syntax-semantics interface hastily relegate important aspects of meaning which cannot readily be aligned with visible structure to empty projecting heads non-reductively (mainstream Generative Grammar) or to the syntactic construction holistically (Construction Grammar). This book develops an alternative, compositional analysis of the hidden aspectual-temporal, modal and comparative meanings of a range of productive constructions of which pseudorefl exive, excessive and directional complement constructions take center stage. Accordingly, a contradiction-inducing hence semantically problematic part of literally coded meaning is locally ignored and systematically realized "expatriately" with respect to parts of structure that achieve the indexical anchoring of propositional contents in terms of times, worlds and standards of comparison, thus yielding the observed hidden meanings.
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1 Introduction2 Weaker construction2.1 Hiding modality2.2 Strengthening and weakening2.3 Plural matters3 Wrenches and nails3.1 Phenomenal and ordinary individuals3.2 Weak theories of comparatives3.3 Transitivity vs. inclusion semantics4 Bound to contradict4.1 llegal reflexivization4.2 Infinite mis-construction4.3 Mostly up, or sideways5 Summary
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Dr. Patrick Brandt arbeitet am Insititut für Deutsche Sprache in der Abteilung Grammatik und lehrt als Privatdozent im Bereich Germanistische Linguistik an der Universität Mannheim.
