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Reflexivized motion verbs in Old Saxon: Semantics, syntax and semiotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Laura Dale Clopton
Laura Dale Clopton
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University of California at BerkeleyBerkeley, CA 94720
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Abstract

This paper examines four dative reflexive verbs of motion in Old Saxon:faran, gangan, kuman and giuuitan. The linguistic universals of GB syntax and the universal phenomenological categories of Peircean semiotics provide the theoretical framework for this paper. Various syntactic and semantic aspects of the dative reflexive verbs are targeted in the analysis: binding of the reflexive, word order patterns and subject types. The article suggests that a link exists between subject types, V1 syntactic configurations and the appearance of the dative reflexive — only human, animate subjects can license a dative reflexive and the reflexivized verbs exhibit a strong tendency to appear in the narratively visible V1 structure.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , July 1992 , pp. 131 - 148
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1992

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