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The series Online-only Publications of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDSopen) offers authors and recipients from all areas of linguistics a modern and open platform for digital publishing. IDSopen provides a contemporary publication environment that focuses on publishing works based on resources of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) and demonstrates their potential uses in particular. At the same time, IDSopen is characterized by its openness to unconventional publication forms and formats. Transparent review processes are just as much a part of the series' profile as an open publication schedule and addressing different target groups. IDSopen follows the guidelines of the IDS and the Leibniz Association (cf. LeibnizOpen) in accordance with the open access principle and publishes exclusively in digital form, without a printed version (online-only). The aim of these measures is to enable short publication times for manuscripts, to offer unrestricted and free access to quality-checked scientific information about IDS resources on the Internet and to support liquid publication processes.
Current Issue
Vol. 11 (2025): Valenzalternation im Vergleich: Antikausativa im Deutschen, Französischen und Ungarischen
In his typology of inchoative-causative verb alternation, Haspelmath (1993) argues for a preference of the anticausative type in European languages. In this article, alternation pairs in German, French and Hungarian are considered on this basis. For this purpose, the list of verbs or metalinguistic concepts is used, which Haspelmath arranges along a spontaneity scale. This method of using the meta-linguistic concept list as a basis for comparison, which was applied by Haspelmath (1993) and is widely used in language typology research, is critically scrutinized and its applicability examined. In addition to elicitations and dictionaries, corpus queries are also used as a data basis. The study thus provides critical insights into the tension between a large-scale typological study and a more in-depth examination of linguistic structural phenomena in individual languages. While the individual language results for German and the diachronic findings for Hungarian generally tend to support Haspelmath's thesis of the spontaneity scale, a more detailed individual language study of French shows that Haspelmath's morphological typology of alternation pair formation must be extended to include a further type, the anticausative-labile type. The data presented thus also provide interesting new results for the areal typology of Europe.
Published:
2025-08-19
