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In contrast to English, German is generally considered to be a PUT-poor language (cf. Lenz 2021: 54). Thus, English has the verb put, which can express a caused movement of an object to a target location (target-object movement) in a general, i.e. non-specific way, which is evident from the following sentence: She put the book on the shelf. In this sentence it is left open in which way the book is moved and which final position it takes ("liegend, stehend etc."). In German, on the other hand, PUT verbs describing a target-object movement tend to be realized by their movement specifics. Instead of a base PUT verb, German has a number of specifier verbs that can express, among other things, a placement process (cf. Hermann 2019: 93).
The phenomenon is currently being surveyed in the project Regionalsprache.de (REDE) at the Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas, at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and at the University of Bern by means of questionnaires in the varieties colloquial standard, regiolect and dialect (cf. Kasper/Pheiff 2023). Interim results seem to confirm the above assumptions. Thus, in tasks that ask for a target-object movement and include the combinations "Deckel auf den Topf" and "Verschluss auf die Flasche", subjects use forms such as "setzen, legen, machen, schrauben, drehen" or also the more dialectally located "tun". However, their percentage distribution among the speech layers dialect, regionally colored everyday language and High German (standard language) paints a more complex picture. In this talk I would like to present a doctoral project which aims at drawing a more differentiated picture of PUT verbs in German. Its object is a variational linguistic analysis that considers both the horizontal and vertical dimension and classifies the results diachronically.
In the research literature, the question of what controls variation in the lexicalization of PUT events, i.e. the choice of certain sentence patterns in combination with certain PUT verbs, in varieties of German has not yet received a clear answer. Event semantic, pragmatic as well as sociolinguistic factors will be brought to bear in the analysis. It is conceivable, for example, that a particular "PUT verb" encodes a larger movement complex that conceptually represents a "main" movement action, but at the same time has one or more situational "complementary" components (cf. Talmy 2000: 36). These could manifest themselves in the fact that a PUT verb also expresses "co-occurrences," such as the manner as well as the cause of a movement, in addition to its movement.