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Paperback. Condizione: New. «Michelle Leese's book is a must-read for those interested in the German impersonal passive. Based on an experimental study of almost 400 zero-argument passives she convincingly shows that this allegedly "exceptional" passive is the very core from which all werden-passives in their meaning as "event-focused action" are derived.»(Petra M. Vogel, Professor of German Linguistics, University of Siegen, Germany)«This book presents a vast amount of original data to confront a glaring weakness of the aspect analysis of the German passive: if the actional passive is telic, why is the impersonal passive of the type Es wurde getanzt atelic? The answer given is a revelation delightful in its simplicity.»(Dr Christopher Beedham, Honorary Lecturer, Department of German, University of St Andrews, Scotland)Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even though most passives do not contain the agent - the entity carrying out the action - that would be crucial to such a conversion. Beedham's aspect analysis offered an alternative perspective which discarded any notion of a mandatory connection to the active, and instead proposed that passive formation requires only a lexically telic verb, compositional telicity and a patient (affected entity) subject.This book challenges both these analyses via an empirical investigation into the somewhat neglected impersonal passive in German of the type Es wurde getanzt, which, as a zero-argument, atelic construction, exists as an exception to both the voice and aspect analysis rules. Using the theoretical framework of Saussurean structuralism and Beedham's «method of exceptions and their correlations», this book presents a new, «event-focused» analysis of both this impersonal passive and the German actional passive in general; plus, it proposes that since Es wurde getanzt, as the barest form of passive and the closest realisation of the werden + ge-V-t core of all passives, is atelic, this werden-passive core too is atelic.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: Sehr gut. Band 52. 297 p.: tables, Ill. Ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ A very good and clean copy. - Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even though most passives do not contain the agent the entity carrying out the action that would be crucial to such a conversion. Beedhams aspect analysis offered an alternative perspective which discarded any notion of a mandatory connection to the active, and instead proposed that passive formation requires only a lexically telic verb, compositional telicity and a patient (affected entity) subject.This book challenges both these analyses via an empirical investigation into the somewhat neglected impersonal passive in German of the type Es wurde getanzt, which, as a zero-argument, atelic construction, exists as an exception to both the voice and aspect analysis rules. Using the theoretical framework of Saussurean structuralism and Beedhams «method of exceptions and their correlations», this book presents a new, «event-focused» analysis of both this impersonal passive and the German actional passive in general; plus, it proposes that since Es wurde getanzt, as the barest form of passive and the closest realisation of the werden + ge-V-t core of all passives, is atelic, this werden-passive core too is atelic. " Chapter 1 Introduction " Chapter 2 Previous analyses of the passive and of the impersonal passive of the type Es wurde getanzt " 2.1 Introduction " 2.2 The voice analysis " 2.3 Reasons for the passive " 2.4 The aspect analysis " 2.4.1 Aspect " 2.4.2 The aspect analysis of the passive as a response to the flawed voice analysis " 2.5 Es wurde getanzt: Compositional atelicity? " 2.5.1 The power of the adverbial " 2.5.2 Multiple implicit arguments and their contribution to atelicity " 2.6 Es wurde getanzt: Other issues and the gaps in our knowledge that remain " 2.6.1 The nature of the implicit, unexpressed argument " 2.6.2 The use, status and identity of the impersonal passive " 2.6.3 The impersonal passive as a means of defocusing/demoting the agent " 2.6.4 The impersonal passive as a means of generalisation " 2.6.5 The Es wurde getanzt passive as a means of focusing on the action, process, event and the verb itself " 2.7 Chapter summary and conclusion " Chapter 3 The theoretical and methodological frameworks of the project " 3.1 Introduction " 3.2 Saussurean structuralism " 3.2.1 The linguistic sign, form and meaning, and the language system " 3.2.2 Langue and parole " 3.2.3 Synchronic vs. diachronic linguistics " 3.3 The method of exceptions and their correlations " 3.3.1 The origin of the method " 3.3.2 Practical steps in applying the method " 3.4 Chapter summary and conclusion " Chapter 4 The empirical investigation " 4.1 Introduction " 4.2 Objectives of the investigation " 4.3 Investigation structure " 4.4 Results of an earlier preliminary study " 4.4.1 Limitations of this data " 4.4.2 Patterns to look out for in this investigation " 4.5 The formal and semantic properties tested " 4.6 The process of verb sampling " 4.7 Surveying native speaker informants and producing questionnaires " 4.7.1 The selection of native speaker informants " 4.7.2 The creation of the test sentences " 4.7.3 The structure and distribution of the questionnaires " 4.7.3.1 The benefits of the questionnaire format and of grammaticality judgements " 4.7.3.2 The response options " 4.7.3.3 The presentation of the test sentences " 4.7.3.4 The questionnaire instructions " 4.7.3.5 The distribution of the questionnaires " 4.8 Questionnaire completion: Issues and feedback " 4.8.1 Completion issues and new informants " 4.8.2 The wording of the response options " 4.8.3 The informants' comments and feedback " 4.9 An additional questionnaire: Anglicisms " 4.9.1 The collation of the responses to questionnaires 1 to 6 " 4.9.2 The initial overview of the results: Limitations, necessity and decisions " 4.9.3 The Anglicisms questionnaire: The verb sampling process and questionnaire production and distribution " 4.9.4 The informants' comments on the Anglicism sentences: Problems with the adverb viel " 4.9.4.1 Es wurde viel angeeckt " 4.9.4.2 Es wurde viel einmarschiert " 4.9.4.3 Es wurde viel geschockt " 4.9.4.4 Es wurde viel relaxt " 4.9.4.5 Es wurde viel gestartet " 4.9.4.6 The adverb viel and the impersonal passive: What can we conclude? " 4.10? Chapter summary and conclusion " Chapter 5 The results: A new synthesis for the impersonal passive and for the actional werden-passive in general " 5.1 Introduction " 5.2 The statistics " 5.3 The statistical analysis " 5.3.1 Were the MLitt project results correct? " 5.3.2 Summary of results " 5.3.3 The 'Sein Survey' " 5.4 Main Survey + 'Sein Survey': Final conclusions " 5.5 A discussion of the results: Corroborating studies " 5.6 A discussion of the results: The components of a new synthesis for the impersonal passive of the type Es wurde getanzt " 5.6.1 The implicit argument and its semantic role " 5.6.2 Telic verbs and their compatibility " 5.6.3 Verbs with a sein perfect auxiliary " 5.6.4 'Transitively flexible' verbs " 5.6.5 Intransitive verbs " 5.7 The meaning of the individual elements of the Es wurde ge-V-t passive " 5.7.1 The meaning of es " 5.7.2 The meaning of the werden auxiliary " 5.7.3 The meaning of the 2nd participle ge-V-t " 5.7.4 Summary " 5.8 The meaning of the Es wurde getanzt impersonal passive and of the werden-passive in general " 5.9 Chapter summary and conclusion: A new descriptive analysis and synthesis of the Es wurde getanzt impersonal passive and of the werden-passive in general " Chapter 6 Bringing it all together: The passive, the theoretical frameworks and the future. 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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - «Michelle Leese's book is a must-read for those interested in the German impersonal passive. Based on an experimental study of almost 400 zero-argument passives she convincingly shows that this allegedly 'exceptional' passive is the very core from which all werden-passives in their meaning as 'event-focused action' are derived.»(Petra M. Vogel, Professor of German Linguistics, University of Siegen, Germany)«This book presents a vast amount of original data to confront a glaring weakness of the aspect analysis of the German passive: if the actional passive is telic, why is the impersonal passive of the type Es wurde getanzt atelic The answer given is a revelation delightful in its simplicity.»(Dr Christopher Beedham, Honorary Lecturer, Department of German, University of St Andrews, Scotland)Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even though most passives do not contain the agent - the entity carrying out the action - that would be crucial to such a conversion. Beedham's aspect analysis offered an alternative perspective which discarded any notion of a mandatory connection to the active, and instead proposed that passive formation requires only a lexically telic verb, compositional telicity and a patient (affected entity) subject.This book challenges both these analyses via an empirical investigation into the somewhat neglected impersonal passive in German of the type Es wurde getanzt, which, as a zero-argument, atelic construction, exists as an exception to both the voice and aspect analysis rules. Using the theoretical framework of Saussurean structuralism and Beedham's «method of exceptions and their correlations», this book presents a new, «event-focused» analysis of both this impersonal passive and the German actional passive in general; plus, it proposes that since Es wurde getanzt, as the barest form of passive and the closest realisation of the werden + ge-V-t core of all passives, is atelic, this werden-passive core too is atelic. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Form, Meaning and Aspect in the German Impersonal Passive | Michelle Leese | Taschenbuch | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | 324 S. | Englisch | 2022 | Peter Lang | EAN 9781800798496 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, 10178 Berlin, r[dot]boehm-korff[at]peterlang[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. «Michelle Leese's book is a must-read for those interested in the German impersonal passive. Based on an experimental study of almost 400 zero-argument passives she convincingly shows that this allegedly "exceptional" passive is the very core from which all werden-passives in their meaning as "event-focused action" are derived.»(Petra M. Vogel, Professor of German Linguistics, University of Siegen, Germany)«This book presents a vast amount of original data to confront a glaring weakness of the aspect analysis of the German passive: if the actional passive is telic, why is the impersonal passive of the type Es wurde getanzt atelic? The answer given is a revelation delightful in its simplicity.»(Dr Christopher Beedham, Honorary Lecturer, Department of German, University of St Andrews, Scotland)Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even though most passives do not contain the agent - the entity carrying out the action - that would be crucial to such a conversion. Beedham's aspect analysis offered an alternative perspective which discarded any notion of a mandatory connection to the active, and instead proposed that passive formation requires only a lexically telic verb, compositional telicity and a patient (affected entity) subject.This book challenges both these analyses via an empirical investigation into the somewhat neglected impersonal passive in German of the type Es wurde getanzt, which, as a zero-argument, atelic construction, exists as an exception to both the voice and aspect analysis rules. Using the theoretical framework of Saussurean structuralism and Beedham's «method of exceptions and their correlations», this book presents a new, «event-focused» analysis of both this impersonal passive and the German actional passive in general; plus, it proposes that since Es wurde getanzt, as the barest form of passive and the closest realisation of the werden + ge-V-t core of all passives, is atelic, this werden-passive core too is atelic.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -«Michelle Leese's book is a must-read for those interested in the German impersonal passive. Based on an experimental study of almost 400 zero-argument passives she convincingly shows that this allegedly 'exceptional' passive is the very core from which all werden-passives in their meaning as 'event-focused action' are derived.»(Petra M. Vogel, Professor of German Linguistics, University of Siegen, Germany)«This book presents a vast amount of original data to confront a glaring weakness of the aspect analysis of the German passive: if the actional passive is telic, why is the impersonal passive of the type Es wurde getanzt atelic The answer given is a revelation delightful in its simplicity.»(Dr Christopher Beedham, Honorary Lecturer, Department of German, University of St Andrews, Scotland)Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even though most passives do not contain the agent - the entity carrying out the action - that would be crucial to such a conversion. Beedham's aspect analysis offered an alternative perspective which discarded any notion of a mandatory connection to the active, and instead proposed that passive formation requires only a lexically telic verb, compositional telicity and a patient (affected entity) subject.This book challenges both these analyses via an empirical investigation into the somewhat neglected impersonal passive in German of the type Es wurde getanzt, which, as a zero-argument, atelic construction, exists as an exception to both the voice and aspect analysis rules. Using the theoretical framework of Saussurean structuralism and Beedham's «method of exceptions and their correlations», this book presents a new, «event-focused» analysis of both this impersonal passive and the German actional passive in general; plus, it proposes that since Es wurde getanzt, as the barest form of passive and the closest realisation of the werden + ge-V-t core of all passives, is atelic, this werden-passive core too is atelic. 324 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -«Michelle Leese's book is a must-read for those interested in the German impersonal passive. Based on an experimental study of almost 400 zero-argument passives she convincingly shows that this allegedly 'exceptional' passive is the very core from which all werden-passives in their meaning as 'event-focused action' are derived.»(Petra M. Vogel, Professor of German Linguistics, University of Siegen, Germany)«This book presents a vast amount of original data to confront a glaring weakness of the aspect analysis of the German passive: if the actional passive is telic, why is the impersonal passive of the type Es wurde getanzt atelic The answer given is a revelation delightful in its simplicity.»(Dr Christopher Beedham, Honorary Lecturer, Department of German, University of St Andrews, Scotland)Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even though most passives do not contain the agent ¿ the entity carrying out the action ¿ that would be crucial to such a conversion. Beedham¿s aspect analysis offered an alternative perspective which discarded any notion of a mandatory connection to the active, and instead proposed that passive formation requires only a lexically telic verb, compositional telicity and a patient (affected entity) subject.This book challenges both these analyses via an empirical investigation into the somewhat neglected impersonal passive in German of the type Es wurde getanzt, which, as a zero-argument, atelic construction, exists as an exception to both the voice and aspect analysis rules. Using the theoretical framework of Saussurean structuralism and Beedham¿s «method of exceptions and their correlations», this book presents a new, «event-focused» analysis of both this impersonal passive and the German actional passive in general; plus, it proposes that since Es wurde getanzt, as the barest form of passive and the closest realisation of the werden + ge-V-t core of all passives, is atelic, this werden-passive core too is atelic.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 324 pp. Englisch.…