ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Linguistics |
Bondar V. A. | Saint Petersburg University |
Keywords: perfect resultative syntax morphology grammatical semantics grammaticalisation Old High German |
Summary: The aim of the paper is to perform a syntactic and semantic analysis of the haben + participle II construction on the basis of the
sample from the material pertaining to the Old High German period. The investigation employed the method of contextual analysis
of the semantics of the verbs used as past participles in the construction as well as its syntactic environment. The novelty of the
research is that it shows a detailed picture of mechanisms underlying semantic shifts of haben + participle II which functioned as
the resultative during the whole period and possessed a state-resultant semantics. At the starting point the construction embraced the
syntactic pattern of the possessive verb and inflected past participle which later in the course of semantic and collocational expansion
of the possessive verb and further transformation of the past participle on the model of the predicative form of the adjective and the
construction sin/wesan + participle II yielded the resultative of the second type with a short (uninflected) form of the participle. The
second type of the resultative also retained a state-resultant semantics. In the text of Otfrid and to a larger extent in works by Notker
it becomes possible to identify the subjective resultative. The main conclusion of the paper, which fits into the grammaticalization
theory, is the statement that the key impetus for the change of haben+participle II at different stages of its development during the Old High German period was semantic shifts in relations between the constituents within the construction that triggered its further
morpho-syntactic transformations. |
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