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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. 10 (2025): Argumentidentifikation und handlungsbezogene Bedeutung: indirekte Redewiedergabe mit "sagen" und "fragen" im Deutschen und Italienischen
The starting point of the present study is the observation that in certain languages general utterance and question verbs typically also function as request verbs (in the narrower and broader sense) and then preferentially or exclusively segregate infinitive constructions instead of finite clause structures as propositional arguments. Corpus studies show that the German verbs sagen and fragen only very rarely function as request verbs compared to their translation equivalents. The comparison with Italian shows that the form, illocutionary type and context of the utterances to which reference is to be made in the context of the speech request must fulfill more specific requirements in German in order to be able to refer to them with say or ask. In this context, it can be seen that argument realization and identification in corresponding sentence structures follow a cross-linguistic pattern that proves to be constitutive for an action-related meaning of verbs of speech repetition and that the marginal instances of sagen and fragen as verbs of request also fall back on.
Published:
2025-07-18
