A contrastive analysis of placement verbs in German and Dutch.

A contrastive analysis of placement verbs in German and Dutch German and Dutch are two closely related Germanic languages that use many posture and placement verbs, not only to describe the concrete position of an entity, but also to designate its location in space (cf. Lemmens (2002; 2006), De Knop & Perrez (2014)). In this contribution we study the use of the verbs Germ. stellen/Dt. stellen ('to put in a standing position'), Germ. setzen/Dt. zetten ('to put in a sitting position') and Germ. versetzen/Dt. verzetten (‘to put/move’) in abstract and fixed phrases, such as Germ. an den Prange... Mehr ...