Lokale Konzepte und Partikelverben in einem Modell der Sprachproduktion

This article deals with semantically transparent particle verbs in German, which contain an incorporated local expression cognate with a local preposition. In contrast to expressions containing local prepositional phrases, the potential reference object of the incorporated local particle remains systematically unspecified. Regarding the data from a procedural vantage point, we argue that an adequate formulation of the underlying contextual/conceptual structure of particle verbs requires no referential specification of the missing reference object - which is at most indirectly pragmatically construable - and that the lexical-semantic structure of the construction ultimately reflects this fact. We assume a modular language production model in which a two-level approach to semantics is embedded and concentrate on those interacting components of the model responsible for the assembly of meaning representation.