In the paper, German disintegrated verb-final obwohl (‘although’) and weil (‘because’) clauses are compared with constructions in which obwohl and weil precedes clauses with main clause word order. The former constructions constitute independent, yet subsidiary speech acts. Thus, the subordinating connectors and the positioning of the verb do not indicate syntactic but textual dependency. The latter constructions are of a very different kind. Here, obwohl and weil do not form a constituent with the following clause. Instead, they appear as syntactically independent discourse markers connecting two discourse units. As discourse markers, obwohl and weil obtain their special syntactic and semantic properties as elements of the derived, but independent module of Thetic Grammar.
Desintegration versus Parordination bei "obwohl"- und "weil"- Konstruktionen
Masiero Federica;Frey Werner
2018
Abstract
In the paper, German disintegrated verb-final obwohl (‘although’) and weil (‘because’) clauses are compared with constructions in which obwohl and weil precedes clauses with main clause word order. The former constructions constitute independent, yet subsidiary speech acts. Thus, the subordinating connectors and the positioning of the verb do not indicate syntactic but textual dependency. The latter constructions are of a very different kind. Here, obwohl and weil do not form a constituent with the following clause. Instead, they appear as syntactically independent discourse markers connecting two discourse units. As discourse markers, obwohl and weil obtain their special syntactic and semantic properties as elements of the derived, but independent module of Thetic Grammar.
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