The semantics of German posture and placement verbs in noun-verb phrases

Hermann, Manon
(2019) German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Yearbook — Vol. 7, n° 1, p. 93-114 (2019)

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In this contribution, we study the use of the German verbs stehen (‘to stand’), sitzen (‘to sit’) and their causative equivalents stellen (‘to put in a standing position’) and setzen (‘to put in a sitting position’) in noun-verb phrases, such as an der Spitze stehen (lit. ‘to stand at the top’ = ‘to be at the top’) or auf die Beine stellen (lit. ‘to put upright on the legs’ = ‘to achieve’). Among these phrases we are looking more particularly at the subcategory of complex noun-verb phrases which are commonly referred to as Funktionsverbgefüge in German. Numerous examples from the corpus DeReKo (IDS) are analyzed with the aim of identifying the conceptualizations and image schemas that motivate their use. This preliminary study shows that, even if these verbs seem very close at first sight, their use is highly differentiated.
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Hermann, M. (2019). The semantics of German posture and placement verbs in noun-verb phrases. German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Yearbook, 7(1), 93-114. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/213610 (Original work published 2019)