Process, eventuality and wieder/again

  • This paper argues for a scopal explanation of the readings of the adverb wieder (‘again’). It is the syntactic entity that wieder is related to which determines whether the repetitive or the restitutive reading obtains. If it is adjoined to the minimal verbal domain, it relates to a situation-internal state thus producing a restitutive interpretation, if adjoined to a higher verbal projection, it relates to an eventuality resulting in a repetitive interpretation. Proceeding from the assumption that adverbial adjuncts have base positions which reflect their semantic relations to the rest of the sentence, repetitive wieder is shown to belong to the class of eventuality adverbs that minimally c-command the base positions of all arguments, whereas restitutive wieder has many properties in common with process (manner) adjuncts that minimally c-command the verb in clause-final base position.

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Author:Karin PittnerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1134907
URL:http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Karin.Pittner/PittnerEND_B.pdf
ISBN:978-3-11-017352-9
Parent Title (German):Interface explorations ; 4, Modifying adjuncts / ed. by Ewald Lang, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Claudia Maienborn
Publisher:de Gruyter
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2009/10/26
Year of first Publication:2003
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/10/26
GND Keyword:Morphologie
Page Number:27
First Page:365
Last Page:391
Source:http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Karin.Pittner/PittnerEND_B.pdf ; (in:) Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Ewald Lang, Claudia Maienborn: Modifying Adjuncts. - Berlin: de Gruyter, S. 365-391
HeBIS-PPN:219646325
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht