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„Transparente“ partizipantenbezogene Adverbien im Polnischen und Russischen?

  • Martin Renz and Gerd Hentschel
Published/Copyright: September 25, 2009
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Abstract

In the domain of adjectival adjuncts (i.e. outside the nominal phrase), Russian and Polish employ distinct coding-strategies to express the semantic orientation of adjuncts towards either the event or one of its participants. Event-orientation, characteristic for adverbials (in a narrow sense), is typically expressed by adverbs. Adjectives, on the other hand, are used to reflect participant-orientation, thus being prototypical instances of secondary predicates. Nevertheless, especially in Polish, adverbs sometimes exhibit participant-orientation rather than event-orientation. This resembles a phenomenon known from English as “transparent adverb”, i.e. an adjunct that takes the form of an adverb and informs about the psychological state of a participant in the event, where this particular psychological state is considered the cause or consequence of the state of affairs denoted by the primary predication. The article investigates whether a category “transparent adverb” should be assumed for Polish and Russian, too.

Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2008-12

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