Eintrag

Titel

The Contribution of Sentence Positions: The Word also in Spoken German

Personen

Maria Alm

Jahr

2004

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)

Ort

Berlin

Seiten

1 - 14

In

Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop, ZAS Berlin, November 2003

Schlagwörter

Gesprochene Sprache

Objektwörter

also

Abstract

The German word also, similar to English so, is traditionally considered to be a sentence adverb with a consecutive meaning, i.e. it indicates that the propositional content of the clause containing it is some kind of consequence of what has previously been said. As a sentence adverb, also has its place within the core of the German sentence, since this is the proper place for an adverb to occur in German. The sentence core offers two proper positions for adverbs: the so-called front field and the middle field. In spoken German, however, also often occurs in sentence-initial position, outside the sentence itself. In this paper, I will use excerpts of German conversations to discuss and illustrate the importance of the sentence positions and the discourse positions for the functions of also on the basis of some German conversations.

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