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Starting from certain semantic categories (e.g. Temporality and Aspectuality), the seminar studies the morphological, or rather, morpho-syntactic (functional) categories Tense, Correlation and Aspect as well as Mood of the English verb, which are seen as based on privative binary oppositions. Thus the participants investigate the historical shift from predominantly morphologically oriented to more functionally based patterns. In a similar way, the category of Voice is discussed in the context of building the information structure of sentences. In addition, the seminar takes a comparative look at whether and how the concepts and semantic categories in question are grammaticalised in German. Furthermore, selected verbal categories are also scrutinised from the perspective of Cognitive Grammar in general and the mental-space theory in particular. |
