With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts

This dissertation uses a common grammatical phenomenon, light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and German, to investigate how syntax-semantics mapping defaults influence the relationships between language processing, representation and conceptualization. LVCs are analyzed as a phenomenon of mismatch in the argument structure. The processing implication of this mismatch are experimentally investigated, using ERPs and a dual task. Data from these experiments point to an increase in working memory. Representational questions are investigated using structural priming. Data from this study suggest that while the syntax of LVCs is not different from other structures’, the semantics and mapping are represented differently. This hypothesis is tested with a new categorization paradigm, which reveals that the conceptual structure that LVC evoke differ in interesting, and predictable, ways from non-mismatching structures’.

Level thesis:degree_level

thesis.doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher

Universität Potsdam

Year

2014

Author dc:creator

• Wittenberg, Eva

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wiese, Heike
• Snedeker, Jesse
• Jackendoff, Ray

• light verb constructions
• syntax
• semantics
• event-related potential
• priming
• Semantik
• Sprachverarbeitung
• Funktionsverbgefüge

Statement dc:rights

• Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz

Repository record source_url

https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/8236

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:kobv.de-opus4-uni-potsdam:8236