Untersuchungen zum "bekommen"-Passiv im heutigen Deutsch

Empirically the present corpus-oriented study concentrates on the semantic class formed by the full verbs combining with bekommen/kriegen/erhalten, the characteristic features of subjects, objects and agent expressions figuring in this construction, their (largely semantically conditioned) formability/non-formability and the specific semantic-syntactic nature of this type of passive. In conclusion, the author advances reasons for categorizing the construction as a passive, discusses the extent to which the three verbs may be considered as auxiliaries, and inquires into the feasibility of incorporating the empirical features of the construction into a consistent theoretical model. The discussion reveals that neither the existing theoretical conceptions nor the author's own modification of a dependency-oriented approach are fully adequate to the task of accounting theoretically for the data observed.