Eintrag

Titel

Crossing the lake. Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German

Personen

Ellen Brandner, Martin Salzmann

Jahr

2012

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

67 - 98

In

Comparative Germanic Syntax. The state of the art

Sprache(n)

Deutsch (Dialekt)
Deutsch (Schweiz)

Schlagwörter

Semantik
Verb

Abstract

The Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland and in south-western Germany are structurally very similar. This seems to extend to the motion verb construction where the motion verb is obligatorily followed by an element "gi/go" followed by an infinitive. Upon closer inspection, however, intriguing asymmetries emerge. We account for these differences by treating "gi/go" as belonging to different syntactic categories. This synchronic difference in categorization can be related to different historical developments, as proposed by Lötscher (1993): both elements go back to the preposition gen "towards" and developed into a functional head with purpose/goal semantics that combines with a non-finite verbal projection. We will show that while gi in Bodensee-Alemannic still heads this functional projection, "go" in Swiss German has been reanalyzed as a verbal element and is now integrated into the Verb Raising and Verb Projection Raising system.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/74860