RT Journal Article
T1 Semantisch-lexikographische Aspekte deverbaler -ung-Nominalisierungen: Grundlagen und Beschreibungsmöglichkeiten
T2 Semantic-Lexicographic Aspects of Deverbal -ung-Nominalizations in German: Theoretical Foundations and Descriptive Possibilities
A1 Arias Arias, Iván
K1 Deverbal nouns
K1 -ung-nominalisations
K1 Argument structure
K1 Digital lexicography
K1 Users' needs
K1 Corpus-based methods
K1 Regular polysemy
AB Contemporary digital dictionaries exhibit significant shortcomings in the systematic representation of morpho-lexical information. This study uses German deverbal -ung-nominalisations to examine how corpus-based argument structure analyses can improve their lexicographic documentation. Based on a semantically annotated corpus, 200 -ung-nominalisations were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results lead to two central findings: (a) Regular polysemy: The morphological formation mechanisms explain the systematic polysemy between process (nomen actionis) and result (nomen acti) readings, a relationship whose connection to the -ung affix is not presented in existing monolingual dictionaries; (b) Stable argument structure: The semantic argument structure (of the nomen actionis) is characterised by a stable "minimal program" (the argument for the patient/theme and the argument for the cause of change). The study consequently proposes an optimised model that integrates these explicit argument structure patterns and their semantic functions. This systematic approach is crucial for advanced learners of German (DaF), as it enables the productive formation of nominalisations. The work thus demonstrates that a systematic morpho-lexical presentation addresses the growing need for structured digital lexicography and supports foreign language acquisition.
AB Contemporary digital dictionaries exhibit significant shortcomings in the systematic representation of morpho-lexical information. This study uses German deverbal -ung-nominalisations to examine how corpus-based argument structure analyses can improve their lexicographic documentation. Based on a semantically annotated corpus, 200 -ung-nominalisations were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results lead to two central findings: (a) Regular polysemy: The morphological formation mechanisms explain the systematic polysemy between process (nomen actionis and result (nomen acti) readings, a relationship whose connection to the -ung affix is not presented in existing monolingual dictionaries; (b) Stable argument structure: The semantic argument structure (of the nomen actionis) is characterised by a stable "minimal program" (the argument for the patient/theme and the argument for the cause of change). The study consequently proposes an optimised model that integrates these explicit argument structure patterns and their semantic functions. This systematic approach is crucial for advanced learners of German (DaF), as it enables the productive formation of nominalisations. The work thus demonstrates that a systematic morpho-lexical presentation addresses the growing need for structured digital lexicography and supports foreign language acquisition.
PB Lexikos & Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT)
YR 2026
FD 2026-05-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/47302
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/47302
LA deu
NO Arias-Arias, I. (2026). Semantisch-lexikographische Aspekte deverbaler -ung-Nominalisierungen: Grundlagen und Beschreibungsmöglichkeiten. Lexikos, 36(1), 55-84. https://doi.org/10.5788/36-1-2179
NO Dieser Aufsatz ist Teil des Projekts PID2022-137170OB-I00, finanziert durch MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, EU, wobei PID2022-137170OB-I00 die in der Bewilligungsentscheidung genannte Referenz ist; MCIN das Akronym des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Innovation der spanischen Bundesregierung; AEI das Akronym der Staatlichen Forschungsagentur; 10.13039/501100011033 der DOI (Digital Object Identifier) der Agentur; und FEDER das Akronym des Europäischen Fonds für regionale Entwicklung. Die Durchführung dieser Studie war z.T. dank des Programms zur Ausbildung von Universitätslehrenden (Förderkennzeichen FPU21/00188) vom spanischen Ministerium für Universitäten möglich.
DS Minerva
RD 22 may 2026