Positions and Interpretations - German Adverbial Adjectives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. In particular, it is an open question which different adverbial usages need to be distinguished, which usages are tied to which syntactic positions, and how these different usage can be formally analyzed. Focussing on adverbial adjectives in German, this study provides detailed answers to these questions. By distinguishing between verb-related adverbials and event-related adverbials, the author provides a new analysis of the large class of adverbials traditionally labelled as manner adverbials. It is shown that the two different classes are linked to different syntactic positions, and formal analyses and derivations for the two different usages are developed. The book is therefore of interest not only to anyone working on the linguistics of German but also to all linguists working on the syntax-semantics interface and the formal analysis of adverbials.

About the author

Martin Schäfer, geboren 1935, wurde in Ulm geboren und hat Germanistik, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte studiert. Er ist Autor und Kolumnist der Münchner Abendzeitung und lebt seit über 40 Jahren in München. Neben seiner journalistischen Tätigkeit hat er zahlreiche Bücher geschrieben, die sich mit Bayerns Geschichte befassen.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Schäfer
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9783110485363
• ISBN: 978-3-11-048536-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 13 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 383 g
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies