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Vol. 17:2 (2019) ► pp.511–530

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The conceptual basis of ablativity

 | Universität Erfurt
 | Universität Leipzig
Published online: 10 January 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00045.her
Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to define the notion of ablativity in terms of its event structure. To achieve this goal, the authors discuss the contribution of several semantic theories dealing with that conceptual class to finally propose their own definition, extensively based on the cognitive frame-based model by Wotjak ( (2006). Las lenguas, ventanas que dan al mundo. Salamanca: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Salamanca.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; (2011a). Las lenguas ¿comparables e incomparables? À la recherche du Tertium Comparationis perdu). In E. Lavric, W. Pöckl & F. Schallhart (Eds.), Comparatio delectat. Akten der VI. Internationalen Arbeitstagung zum romanisch-deutschen und innerromanischen Sprachvergleich. vol. II1 (pp. 19–60). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; (2016). ¿Podemos recurrir a la Teoría de Valencias para describir construcciones con verbos como predicados centrales? In J. Cuartero Otal, J. P. Larreta Zulategui & C. Ehlers (Eds.), Querschnitt durch die deutsche Sprache aus spanischer Sicht. Perspektiven der Kontrastiven Linguistik, (pp. 47–70). Berlin: Frank&Timme.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). Even though the survey is mainly concerned with the theoretically relevant aspects of that semantic class, many of them are also illustrated with examples from different languages, especially from Latin, Spanish and German. Finally, the authors explain how ablativity conceptually relates to other semantic classes, such as concomitance or possession.
Article outline
  • 1.Ablativity and its precedents
  • 2.Some attempts to describe abl(ativity)
    • 2.1Terminological diversity
    • 2.2Some (formal) approaches
  • 3.The role of boundaries in the cognitive-conceptual structure of ablativity
  • 4.A cognitive representation for ablativity, prosecutivity and adlativity
  • 5.The semantic variation of ablativity
  • 6.Final remarks
  • Notes
  • References
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