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Haben -statives in German

A syntactic analysis
  • Martin Businger
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Abstract

This paper addresses stative sentences like Er hat den Arm verbunden (‘He has his arm bandaged’), which are going to be referred to as haben-statives. A ‘passive analysis’ of haben-statives is rejected. Instead, I put forward a syntactic analysis of haben-statives where haben ‘have’ embeds a small clause in which the participle functions as an adjectival predicate. In my approach, Kratzer’s (1993) stipulative distinction between ‘lexical’ and ‘phrasal’ adjectivization (cf. Rothstein 2007) can be abandoned. The proposed analysis allows for a uniform analysis of an array of different haben-structures in German, since they can all be ascribed the same underlying structure.

Abstract

This paper addresses stative sentences like Er hat den Arm verbunden (‘He has his arm bandaged’), which are going to be referred to as haben-statives. A ‘passive analysis’ of haben-statives is rejected. Instead, I put forward a syntactic analysis of haben-statives where haben ‘have’ embeds a small clause in which the participle functions as an adjectival predicate. In my approach, Kratzer’s (1993) stipulative distinction between ‘lexical’ and ‘phrasal’ adjectivization (cf. Rothstein 2007) can be abandoned. The proposed analysis allows for a uniform analysis of an array of different haben-structures in German, since they can all be ascribed the same underlying structure.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Non-canonical passives 1
  4. Adjectival passives and adjectival participles in English 21
  5. The get -passive at the intersection of get and the passive 43
  6. Three “competing” auxiliaries of a non-canonical passive 63
  7. Variations in non-canonical passives 95
  8. How much bekommen is there in the German bekommen passive? 115
  9. Haben -statives in German 141
  10. Another passive that isn’t one 163
  11. Passives and near-passives in Balto-Slavic 185
  12. How do things get done 213
  13. Anticausativizing a causative verb 235
  14. On the syntax-semantics of passives in Persian 261
  15. Two indirect passive constructions in Japanese 281
  16. Få and its passive complement 297
  17. The Danish reportive passive as a non-canonical passive 315
  18. (Non-)canonical passives and reflexives 337
  19. Index 359
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.205.07bus

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Non-canonical passives 1
  4. Adjectival passives and adjectival participles in English 21
  5. The get -passive at the intersection of get and the passive 43
  6. Three “competing” auxiliaries of a non-canonical passive 63
  7. Variations in non-canonical passives 95
  8. How much bekommen is there in the German bekommen passive? 115
  9. Haben -statives in German 141
  10. Another passive that isn’t one 163
  11. Passives and near-passives in Balto-Slavic 185
  12. How do things get done 213
  13. Anticausativizing a causative verb 235
  14. On the syntax-semantics of passives in Persian 261
  15. Two indirect passive constructions in Japanese 281
  16. Få and its passive complement 297
  17. The Danish reportive passive as a non-canonical passive 315
  18. (Non-)canonical passives and reflexives 337
  19. Index 359
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