Prof. Verhoeven erforscht die grammatische Struktur und Variation von Sprachen, insbesondere indigener Sprachen wie Yukatekisches Maya und Chibcha-Sprachen. Ihr aktueller Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Dokumentation und Analyse von Registervariation – also wie dieselbe Person ihre Sprache je nach Situation (formell/informell, mündlich/schriftlich) unterschiedlich nutzt – durch das mehrsprachige Lang*Reg-Korpus. Sie untersucht, wie Sprachen grammatische Phänomene wie Psychverben (Verben der Emotion und Wahrnehmung), Ergativität und Informationsstruktur unterschiedlich lösen und wie sozio-ökonomische Veränderungen die Grammatik indigener Sprachen beeinflussen. Für Unternehmen und öffentliche Institutionen relevant ist ihre Expertise in Sprachdokumentation, Korpusaufbau und quantitativen Sprachvergleichsmethoden – besonders für Sprachentechnologie, Mehrsprachigkeitsmanagement und die Erhaltung gefährdeter Sprachen.
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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven
HU-FIS-Profil ↗SFB 1412/2: Modellierung von Registervariation im Sprachvergleich (TP A06)
university
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.