Glück auf, der Steiger kommt: a frame account of extensional and intensional steigen

̊ The paper investigates the meaning variation of the German movement verb steigen (‘climb’/‘rise’). Three major uses are contrasted within a frame-based analysis: steigen as a verb of manner of motion, as a verb of directed movement and as an intensional verb. The modeling in terms of Barsalou frames, i. e., in terms of functional attributes and their values, allows an explicit account of the correlations that hold among subevents, manner, positions and the overall path traversed by the theme argument, and yields a representation of the event structure and the argument structure with Wexible granularity. By investigating the variation in the attribute structure of the verb steigen in the extensional and intensional uses we give an analysis that captures the relation between the uses as a transfer of the relevant attributes from verb-frame-internal attributes in the extensional use to verb frame-external attributes which are realized by functional nouns such as Temperatur ‘temperature’ in the intensional use. Thereby, we oUer an account of the polysemy of steigen which goes beyond the usual picture of a metaphor. ̊ The research presented in this paper was supported by the CRC 991, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Moreover, we are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their insightful questions and valuable suggestions. Doris Gerland, Christian Horn, Anja Latrouite & Albert Ortmann (eds.). 2014. Meaning and Grammar of Nouns and Verbs. Düsseldorf: dup. 115 Thomas Gamerschlag, Wilhelm Geuder & Wiebke Petersen