Situation control under reflexivization. A comparative study ofcertain verbs in Czech and German
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Both in Czech and German, there exists a huge class of verbs
which (obligatorily or occasionally) take a reflexive element.
It is not the case, however, that a reflexive verb in Czech has
always a corresponding translational equivalent in German which
is also reflexive. In applying the theory of middle verbs
developed by Ingrid Kaufmann to Czech and German data, I arrive
at the conclusion, that one of the decisive factors of
reflexivization in German (as opposed to Czech) is situation
control. While in Czech it is possible to derive reflexive
decausatives virtually from any causative verb, in German the
derivative process is blocked if the patient of the underlying
verb is assigned potential situation control.