Zeitstufenbezug und Zeitverlaufstrukturen in den kausalen Adverbialsatzgefügen im Deutschen

• Authors: Mariola Wierzbicka

Title variants

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Time relation and tense structures in German subordinate causal clauses

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The paper contains detailed analyses of syntactic and semantic relations between adverbial clauses of purpose in the German language on the basis of examples from standard German journalistic texts. The study accounts for a variety of linguistic devices used in the texts. The categories of relative causality as formal functional complex syntactic categories were also addressed. These categories, by means of co-existing within a number of linguistic devices (morphological, syntactic and lexical- semantic and communicative-pragmatic), contribute to the process of meaning creation in the subord inate clause of effect. The texts under study are formally close to the spoken language. Based on the empirical data, German adverbial clause and effect clauses were examined against the syntactic linearity and against hierarchical relations of the main clause with the adverbial subordinate clause of purpose. The interpretational possibilities of these relations were also addressed.

Keywords

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Zeitstufenbezug; Zeitverlaufstrukturen; Kausalsätze; tense structures; time relation; subordinate causal clauses

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Germanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 140
• Pages: 287 - 300

Contributors

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Mariola Wierzbicka

• Universität Rzeszów, Rzeszów