The contribution of sentence position : The word 'also' in spoken german
- The German word also, similar to English so, is traditionally considered to be a sentence adverb with a consecutive meaning, i.e. it indicates that the propositional content of the clause containing it is some kind of consequence of what has previously been said. As a sentence adverb, also has its place within the core of the German sentence, since this is the proper place for an adverb to occur in German. The sentence core offers two proper positions for adverbs: the so-called front field and the middle field. In spoken German, however, also often occurs in sentence-initial position, outside the sentence itself. In this paper, I will use excerpts of German conversations to discuss and illustrate the importance of the sentence positions and the discourse positions for the functions of also on the basis of some German conversations.
| Author: | Maria Alm |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308924 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/193.html?&L=0%20order%20by%201000%20-- |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop : ZAS Berlin, November 2003 / Ed.: Benjamin Shaer ... , Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2004; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 35 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | Dislocated Elements Workshop |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Diskursanalyse; also; Satzadverb; Konsekutivsatz; Wortstellung; Deutsch |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Page Number: | 14 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 14 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381234118 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
| Linguistik | |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Pragmalinguistik/Kommunikationsforschung / Pragmalinguistics/Communication research | |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Lexikologie/Etymologie / Lexicology/Etymology | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 35 = Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop : ZAS Berlin, November 2003 |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306765 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
