2020
DOI: 10.31513/linguistica.2020.v16n3a36966
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Spatial verbs are demonstration verbs

Abstract: The literature has been divided over the question of whether spatial verbs should be subsumed into a single verb class with agreement verbs. The main point of contention has been that, even if the nature of the elements that these verb types agree with differs, the morphosyntactic mechanism, i.e. a path movement, appears to be the same. Contributing to this debate, this corpus-based study scrutinizes the morphosyntactic properties of a set of spatial verbs in German Sign Language (DGS). It is shown that spatia… Show more

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“…More recently, pro-drop in psych verbs has been described (see Section 2.3). Pro-drop with classifier predicates and spatial verbs in general has been connected to demonstration and depiction (Kimmelman 2018c, Oomen 2020b). Finally, subject omission is a common strategy for agent backgrounding and/or impersonal reference (Barberà & Cabredo Hofherr 2018), as discussed in Section 3.1. body-anchored verbs-including psych verbs-are unchangeable and thus at first glance do not express person features of any arguments.…”
Section: Argument Omissionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More recently, pro-drop in psych verbs has been described (see Section 2.3). Pro-drop with classifier predicates and spatial verbs in general has been connected to demonstration and depiction (Kimmelman 2018c, Oomen 2020b). Finally, subject omission is a common strategy for agent backgrounding and/or impersonal reference (Barberà & Cabredo Hofherr 2018), as discussed in Section 3.1. body-anchored verbs-including psych verbs-are unchangeable and thus at first glance do not express person features of any arguments.…”
Section: Argument Omissionmentioning
confidence: 99%