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Agent-Oriented Manner Adverbials in German: A Frame-Based Analysis

Agent-Oriented Manner Adverbials in German: A Frame-Based Analysis

Gabrovska, Ekaterina

Paperback

Series: Dissertations in Language and Cognition, Book 10

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110754967
ISBN13: 9783110754964
Publisher: Dusseldorf University Press
Published: Aug 19 2024
Pages: 193
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The work offers a new perspective on the semantics of agent-oriented manner adverbials, actions and intentionality. It proposes a treatment of these adverbials which accounts for their impact on the manner of the event as well as for their agent-orientation. The analysis is developed in a case study of German sorgfältig ('carefully') and vorsichtig ('cautiously') and makes use of the philosophical concept of action-plans. It is proposed that the modifier sorgfältig has impact on the given goal of the agent while vorsichtig introduces an additional goal of minimizing risk. The modification of the goal restricts the possible methods of realization of the action, i.e. the manner of action.

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