Abstract
This paper focuses on the determination of the part-of-speech appurtenance of MEIN-lexeme concerning the Optimality Theory. The aim of the analysis is also to find the solution to the problem in the frame of a new course of formal research which appeared in the beginning of 90-s years of the 20-th century (the Optimality Theory) by using its methodological terms. The following working hypothesis was made: MEIN belongs to an article class. The constraints were formulated on the basis of main article characteristics presented in various German grammars. According to multifunctional nature of a lexeme, the constraints combine morphological, syntactic and semantic features: an article can’t be the head of a noun phrase, it agrees with a noun in case, gender and number, has no lexical meaning, affects the inflection of the adjective in the attributive position, doesn’t coordinate with other articles, has the function of determination, can be moved into an A-position only as a part of noun phrase. The results are made in the form of tables that present the process of harmony-evaluation and the final optimal candidate. The results of the study show that MEIN- lexeme belongs to an article class. It is equally important that the methodological tools of the Optimality Theory could be extended for research in the sphere of morphology and semantics.
Highlights
Lexeme MEIN- part-of-speech appurtenance regarding German grammar did not generate a lot of debates 15-20 years ago
We present the paper to determine the part of speech for the lexeme MEIN- by the application of Optimality Theory methodological terms
MEIN- presents the following features: − − − − − − The work “Deutsche Grammatik” (2011), written by Gerhard Helbig and Joachim Buscha, introduces the part-of-speech classification based on syntactic criteria taking into consideration the location and distribution of speech chain elements in linear deployment
Summary
Lexeme MEIN- part-of-speech appurtenance regarding German grammar did not generate a lot of debates 15-20 years ago (the lexeme considered to be a pronoun, possessive pronouns subclass). Due to the variety of advanced approaches to study and interpretation of language patterns, this issue has been investigated from a new perspective. A perennial problem of parts-of-speech classification has been relevant more than two thousand years and in combination with new approaches to a scientific inquiry, this issue gives us a new horizon for linguistic study. The aim of the paper is to determine of part-of-speech appurtenance of MEIN-lexeme concerning Optimality Theory. The presented issue has not been thoroughly investigated in terms of Optimality Theory in linguistics. The fundamental issue of a scientific exploring has not been under investigation regarding linguistics
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