Das Doppelperfekt: Theorie und Empirie

The article concentrates on the German double perfect forms and tries to find an answer to the following question: is it possible to show that – contrary to traditional assumptions – the German double perfect is a systematical and therefore acceptable verbal form of German? First, the question wil...

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Main Authors: Zybatow Tatjana, Weskott Thomas
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: De Gruyter 2018-06-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2018-0003
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Summary:The article concentrates on the German double perfect forms and tries to find an answer to the following question: is it possible to show that – contrary to traditional assumptions – the German double perfect is a systematical and therefore acceptable verbal form of German? First, the question will be substantiated by four experiments and will get an empirical answer. Secondly, a syntactic and semantic analysis of the double forms will be proposed and the empirical data will be discussed in view of this proposal.
ISSN:0721-9067
1613-3706