Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven forscht auf dem Gebiet der vergleichenden Linguistik und Sprachtypologie mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der Interaktion zwischen Syntax, Semantik und Informationsstruktur. Ihre Arbeit konzentriert sich insbesondere auf die Analyse von Experiencer-Konstruktionen, Psych-Verben und Registervariation in verschiedenen Sprachen wie Deutsch, Persisch und Yukatekischem Maya. Ein zentrales Element ihrer aktuellen Forschung ist die Erstellung und Nutzung des Lang*Reg-Korpus zur Dokumentation intra-sprecherlicher Variation über verschiedene situative Kontexte hinweg. Durch empirische Korpusanalysen und quantitative Studien untersucht sie sprachübergreifende Muster sowie sprachspezifische Besonderheiten in der Argumentrealisierung und Wortstellung.
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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven
HU-FIS-Profil ↗SFB 1412/2: Modellierung von Registervariation im Sprachvergleich (TP A06)
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Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 08/2011 - 07/2014 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven
Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 05/2016 - 07/2019 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven
Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 04/2018 - 12/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven
This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic expression of experience is not restricted to a specific grammatical area the study touches a great variety of grammatical fields in the language such as argument structure, grammatical relations, possessive constructions, subordinate constructions, etc. The empirical analysis of the Yucatec data is preceded by a thorough examination of the functional domain and the cross-linguistic coding of experience which until now could not be found in the literature. This study will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of typology and Native American linguistics, and especially to those interested in argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.
Studies in language companion series · DOI
This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic expression of experience is not restricted to a specific grammatical area the study touches a great variety of grammatical fields in the language such as argument structure, grammatical relations, possessive constructions, subordinate constructions, etc. The empirical analysis of the Yucatec data is preceded by a thorough examination of the functional domain and the cross-linguistic coding of experience which until now could not be found in the literature. This study will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of typology and Native American linguistics, and especially to those interested in argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.
Linguistic Typology · DOI
Experiencer-object verbs are known to deviate from the prototype of transitive verbs. Previous studies have shown that a subset of these verbs is stative and non-agentive and argue that this semantic peculiarity accounts for particular non-canonical syntactic properties. This article shows that the stativity/non-agentivity of experiencer verbs is subject to typological variation. The empirical evidence comes from an experimental study on speaker's intuitions, which shows that some experiencer-object verbs in German and Modern Greek differ from canonical transitive verbs in agentivity and stativity, while experiencer-object verbs in Turkish, Yucatec Maya, and Chinese display the semanto-syntactic properties of canonical transitive verbs.