The accused is under protection, but is he also protected? – An analysis of passive functional verb structures of the type stehen unter

Abstract

Light verb constructions which have the form ‘stehen unter NP’ show semantic similarities to an eventive passive construction and therefore are treated as an instance of passive voice (Pape-Müller 1980, Weinrich 2002). In the current paper, we demonstrate that the two constructions show formal as well as semantic differences. 

Keywords:

light verb construction, passive voice, aktionsart, compositionality


Published
2022-01-03

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FLEISCHHAUER, J., & TURUS, D. (2022). The accused is under protection, but is he also protected? – An analysis of passive functional verb structures of the type stehen unter. Germanistische Werkstatt, (11), 73–81. https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.4671

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