Kommunikative Leistung der Funktionsverbgefüge und ihrer Stammverben im Deutschen – das Analyseverfahren

“Funktionsverbgefüge” are described as complex predicates with characteristic morphosyntactic and semantic features. Verbo-nominal constructions are composed of a verb component and a noun component. The construction as a whole is closely related to the derivation basis of the noun component. The present study provides a comparison between constructions “beweisen vs. unter Beweis stellen“ and „kontrollieren vs. unter Kontrolle bringen/halten”. It has been tested, if language users really take advantage of “Funktionsverbgefüge” properties, their syntactic and semantic behavior. The aim of this case study was to state the syntactic and semantic properties of the two construction types and emphasize stylistic and functional benefits more precisely.