Open AccessPosition and interpretation of adjuncts : process, event and 'wieder' 'again'
Author(s) -
Karin Pittner
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.17.2000.47
Subject(s) - adverbial , verb , sentence , event (particle physics) , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , base (topology) , linguistics , position (finance) , semantic interpretation , natural language processing , process (computing) , class (philosophy) , artificial intelligence , communication , mathematics , psychology , philosophy , programming language , physics , mathematical analysis , finance , quantum mechanics , economics
This paper deals with restitutive and repetitive 'wieder'. Proceeding from the assumption that adverbial adjuncts have base positions which reflect their semantic relations to the rest of the sentence, it is shown that repetitive 'wieder' belongs to the class of event adverbs minimally c-commanding the base positions of all arguments whereas restitutive 'wieder' has many properties in common with process adjuncts, minimally c-commanding the final verb.