Event-related modification of German adjectival passives

old_uid10077
titleEvent-related modification of German adjectival passives
start_date2011/06/20
schedule10h-12h
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location_infoSalle 255
summaryThis paper addresses the semantics of the German adjectival passive and investigates restrictions on event-related modification with this construction. The account proposed, according to which German adjectival passives instantiate a consequent state kind of an event kind, is motivated by the following facts. First, this construction is fully acceptable only with verbs whose event structure contains a consequent state, represented by an event-semantically interpreted BECOME component. Furthermore, only those event-related modifiers are possible with German adjectival passives that modify either the event kind argument or the state itself. However, modifiers that need to access an event token, such as temporal or spatial modifiers, are not grammatical.
responsiblesSoare, Ferret