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An Experimental Investigation of Agent Prototypicality and Agent Prominence in German
Franziska Kretzschmar
Tim Graf
Markus Philipp
Beatrice Primus
出版
Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen
, 2019
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tCqjzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We investigate whether prototypicality or prominence of semantic roles can account for role-related effects in sentence interpretation. We present two acceptability-rating experiments testing three different constructions: active, personal passive and DO-clefts involving the same type of transitive verbs that differ with respect to the agentive role features they select. Our results reveal that there is no cross-constructional advantage for prototypical roles (e.g., agents), hence disconfirming a central tenet of role prototypicality. Rather, acceptability clines depend on the construction under investigation, thereby highlighting different role features. This finding is in line with one core assumption of the prominence account stating that role features are flexibly highlighted depending on the discourse function of the respective construction.
