کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5124585 1488145 2016 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Focus, scales, and concessive conditionals in German
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تمرکز، مقیاس و شرایط لغوی در آلمان
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Distinction between two German “auch/selbst/sogar wenn” patterns.
- The first “auch/selbst/sogar wenn” pattern expresses a relationship of conditional sufficiency.
- This pattern is characterized by a free and compositional relationship between an additive focus particle, a regular conditional “wenn”-clause, and the matrix clause.
- The second “auch/selbst/sogar wenn” pattern expresses a relationship of conditional insufficiency.
- This pattern is characterized by a fusion of the focus particle and “wenn” into a complex complementizer with concessive characteristics.
- Unlike the first “auch/selbst/sogar wenn” pattern, the second “auch/selbst/sogar wenn” pattern is always scalar, nonrestrictive, and not completely compositional.

Based on examples from spoken talk-in-interaction, this paper deals with German auch/selbst/sogar wenn constructions. It aims to show that two auch/selbst/sogar wenn patterns have to be distinguished. The first pattern - auch/selbst/sogar wenn as an expression of conditional sufficiency - is characterized by a free and compositional relationship between the focus particle (i.e., auch, selbst, or sogar), a regular conditional wenn-clause, and the matrix clause.The second pattern - auch/selbst/sogar wenn as an expression of conditional insufficiency - is only partially compositional: it is characterized by a syntactic and semantic fusion of the focus particle and wenn into a complex complementizer with concessive characteristics. The second pattern has often been discussed under the names “concessive/irrelevance conditional” or “unconditional”.Moreover, it will be shown that auch/selbst/sogar wenn as an expression of conditional insufficiency can be explained in terms of a lexicalized inference foregrounded by regular conditional wenn-clauses preceded by scalar additive focus particles. This argument provides a reasonable diachronic explanation for the synchronic similarities and differences between auch/selbst/sogar wenn as an expression of conditional sufficiency and auch/selbst/sogar wenn as an expression of conditional insufficiency.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Language Sciences - Volume 58, November 2016, Pages 163-177
نویسندگان
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