Adverbialpositionen im deutsch-englischen Vergleich

Abstract

Der Ausgangspunkt ist die These, daß die verschiedenen Adverbialklassen im Deutschen unterschiedliche Basispositionen aufweisen und daß sich diese durch unterschiedliche strukturelle Anforderungen an die Klassen ergeben. Es soll gezeigt werden, daß sich die plausible Vermutung, daß die Adverbialklassen in Sprachen wie dem Deutschen und dem Englischen entsprechenden strukturellen Bedingungen unterliegen, bestä tigt. Unterschiede im Verhalten der Adverbiale in den beiden Sprachen werden demnach nicht durch unterschiedliche Eigenschaften der Adverbiale erfaß t, sondern diese ergeben sich durch die unterschiedlichen Satzstrukturen und die unterschiedlichen Weisen der Argumentverwaltung. Dies wird illustriert anhand von Adverbialen der Art und Weise, Lokal-und Temporaladverbialen, Adverbialen der Subjekthaltung und Satzadverbialen.

Manner adverbs and information structure: Evidence from the adverbial modification of verbs of creation

“…The present overview of the data (which is very sparse in that respect, see the very detailed discussion in Frey and Pittner (1998), also Frey (this volume)) does not commit us to any answer with respect to this question. I will take up the question briefly in Section 7 without, however, attempting a final solution.…”

“…Verbs of creation and coming into existence do not support this unobtrusive kind of topicality and consequently offer a good test case to demonstrate that NP obj to the left of Adv are indeed topical. This position has, however, been seriously challenged in recent work of Frey and Pittner (Frey and Pittner 1998;Frey 2000, this volume). They claim that the German base position for manner adverbs is immediately to the left of the verbal complex and after all nominal arguments.…”

“…(ii) Result-oriented adverbs predicate over the resultant object of an event (and are hence restricted to verbs that denote events with some such object). (iii) Result-oriented adverbs are restricted to positions to the right of the direct object NP ("directly before the verb" or before the verbal complex in terms of Frey and Pittner (1998)). …”

“…Firstly, they claim that sentences like (93) exhibit "integration" of object NP and verb in the sense of Jacobs (1993). If integration occurs, then a single focus accent is enough to cover the whole integrated domain; and -as Frey and Pittner (1998) Yet both focus projection and (possibly) the verb's resistance to front without its object NP could also be explained by the AOV base position. Hence, we will need evidence in favour of undisturbed focus projection with the OAV word order.…”

Event-internal modifiers: Semantic underspecification and conceptual interpretation

“…In the case of German, this is indicated by a series of base order tests based on, e.g., focus projection, quantifier scope, Principle C effects and remnant topicalization; cf. also Frey and Pittner (1998), Haider (2000), Frey (this volume), Pittner (this volume).…”