{"id":46133,"date":"2023-11-22T13:49:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/?page_id=46133"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T09:50:24","slug":"somers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/journals\/papers-of-the-lsb\/volume-17-2023\/somers\/","title":{"rendered":"Linearization and unaccusativity: The relative order of dative and nominative arguments with five German verbs of success and failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Journal<\/strong><br>Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, vol. 17 (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author(s)<\/strong><br>Joren Somers (University of Gent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>The present study maps out the word order distributions in verb-second clauses of five German verbs of success and failure: <em>gelingen <\/em>\u2018to succeed\u2019, <em>gl\u00fccken <\/em>\u2018to succeed\u2019, <em>missgl\u00fccken <\/em>\u2018to fail\u2019, <em>misslingen <\/em>\u2018to fail\u2019, and missraten to fail\u2019. Given their status as unaccusatives, they display an asymmetric mapping between case marking and thematic roles. As a consequence, several researchers have argued that they sanction an inversion of the canonical nominative-before-dative word order pattern. Two positions emerge: those scholars who associate these verbs with a dative-before-nominative order and those who claim that they license both a dative-before- nominative order as well as a nominative-before-dative order. A corpus study of 982 tokens principally shows the latter claim to be true in that, in a configuration with double NPs, the Nom-Dat order is attested 200 times (or 40%), and the Dat-Nom order 299 times (or 60%). Remarkably, when both arguments are realised as pronouns, the variation in word order is neutralised almost entirely in favour of the nominative-before-dative order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DOI<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.61430\/RQRQ2357\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.61430\/RQRQ2357<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/papersLSB_linearization-unaccusativity_somers.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:13px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View full-text<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JournalPapers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, vol. 17 (2023) Author(s)Joren Somers (University of Gent) AbstractThe present study maps out the word order distributions in &hellip; <a title=\"Linearization and unaccusativity: The relative order of dative and nominative arguments with five German verbs of success and failure\" class=\"bnm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/journals\/papers-of-the-lsb\/volume-17-2023\/somers\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linearization and unaccusativity: The relative order of dative and nominative arguments with five German verbs of success and failure<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"parent":45013,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","bnm-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46133"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49313,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46133\/revisions\/49313"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}