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Absent arguments on the Absentive: an exercise in silent syntax. Grammatical category or just pragmatic inference?
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Werner Abraham
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25. September 2009
Abstract
It will be claimed that given the highly situationally restricted context triggering the Absentive meaning under any of the available construals, the occurrence of the Ab-sentive is not a grammatical category. Nor is there a viable diachronic relation with the PP-Progressive in German and other languages such as English. Admittedly, this leaves unaccounted for the fine gradual distance-semantic difference between the Bare Infinitive and the PP-Progressive in German. What appears to provide a further argument against the general categorical status of this construal is the fact that reading does not emerge under any construction type in the Slavic languages.
Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2008-11
© by Akademie Verlag, Berlin, Germany
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