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Social Sciences, Linguistics, Language & Linguistics, German, Lexical classification, Complement-taking mental predicates, Particles, Grammaticalization, EPISTEMIC MODAL EXPRESSIONS, I-THINK, GRAMMATICALIZATION, SUBJECTIVITY, CATEGORIES, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, 2004 Linguistics, 2203 Philosophy, Languages & Linguistics, 4704 Linguistics, 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology

Abstract:

This paper deals with the phenomenon of German complement-taking mental predicates (CTMPs) evolving into particles. The goal is twofold: on the one hand, to get a better view of the situation in present-day German on the basis of a systematic corpus analysis, and on the other hand to discuss the status of the resulting forms. In both cases, the starting point is the analysis of Imo (2006a, 2009a), who briefly deals with this phenomenon in analyzing the uses of the CTMP glauben. The present paper focuses on glauben as well, but other CTMPs, like denken and finden, are also taken into account. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.