The Impersonal Use of German 1st Person Singular Ich

IF 1.6 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-21 DOI:10.1162/ling_a_00446

Sarah Zobel

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Abstract

This article replies to Ackema and Neeleman’s (2018) claim that 1st person singular pronouns are grammatically blocked from having impersonal uses. In connection with this claim, they argue that the impersonal use of German 1st person singular ich described in Zobel 2014 does not exist. I show that Ackema and Neeleman’s alternative analysis of the German data analyzed in Zobel 2014 is flawed, and that new considerations inspired by their proposal further support the claim that German ich has an impersonal use. This result has ramifications not only for Ackema and Neeleman’s account of the morphosyntax and semantics of (impersonally usable) personal pronouns, but also for anyone researching the morphosyntax and semantics of pronominal expressions and how these interact.

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德语第一人称单数Ich的人称用法

本文回应了Ackema和Neeleman（2018）的主张，即第一人称单数代词在语法上被禁止具有非个人用途。关于这一说法，他们认为，Zobel 2014中描述的德语第一人称单数ich的非个人使用不存在。我表明，Ackema和Neeleman对Zobel 2014年分析的德国数据的替代分析是有缺陷的，他们的提议激发的新考虑进一步支持了德国ich具有非个人用途的说法。这一结果不仅对Ackema和Neeleman对（非个人可用的）人称代词的形态句法和语义的描述产生了影响，而且对任何研究代词表达的形态语法和语义以及它们如何相互作用的人都有影响。

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