Sentences without verbs in fictional texts: between statics and dynamics Cover Image

Verblose Sätze in fiktionalen Texten: zwischen Statik und Dynamik
Sentences without verbs in fictional texts: between statics and dynamics

Author(s): Irmtraud Behr
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: verbless sentence; dynamic / stative predication; story progression; point of view; figure-ground-constellation

Summary/Abstract: Verbless sentences may be stative or dynamic, they may refer to actions or to properties of entities. In a narrativ environnement, we will find both types of verbless sentences. Providing a change of view-point and so focussing entities of first or second order (Lyons), dynamic and stative predications can be employed for the story progression, according to the lexical material.

  • Issue Year: 3/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 285-292
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: German