Stellungseigenschaften der Funktionsverbgefüge als DaF-didaktisch relevantes Kriterium und deren Abgrenzung von anderen Phraseologismen
Topological Features of Light Verb Constructions and Other Noun-Verb-Phrases: Similarities, Differences, and Their Role in the Didactics of German as a Foreign Language

Author(s): Ireneusz Gaworski
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Syntax, Pedagogy
Published by: Društvo germanista u Bosni i Hercegovini (DGuBiH) / Germanistenverband in Bosnien-Herzegowina (GViBH)
Keywords: contemporary German; syntax; word order; noun-verb phrases; light verb constructions; German as a foreign language;
Summary/Abstract: Light verb constructions (LVCs) are complex predicates consisting of a semantically light verb, which has lost its lexical meaning and serves only a functional role, and an abstract noun derived from a verb. LVCs are semantically a specific category of noun-verb-phrases that lie between idioms and collocations because they share characteristics of both categories. The syntactic function and topological features of the LVC noun are subjects of much controversy in grammatical descriptions and may cause language mistakes or even errors. Nevertheless, LVCs are perhaps the most underrated category of verb-noun phrases in the didactics of German as a foreign language. The paper outlines the topological properties of LVCs compared to collocations. Following linguistic descriptions of LVCs, attention is directed towards the linear position of the noun and its pragmatic and stylistic potential.

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