Eintrag

Titel

Im Spannungsfeld von Semantik und Pragmatik. Zur Bedeutungskonstitution von Einstellungsadverbialen

Personen

Frauke Buscher

Jahr

2013

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

Seiten

135 - 179

Band

32

Heft

2

Schlagwörter

Adverbial
Semantik

Abstract

Mental attitude adverbials (absichtlich ‚intentionally‘, freiwillig ‚voluntarily‘, etc.) are generally considered to be a homogeneous class of adverbials, the interpretation of which is regulated via the principle of compositionality. I challenge this view, proposing instead that the class of mental attitude adverbials is systematically divided into two subtypes, which I call Assimilative Adverbials (A-Adverbials) and Intentional Adverbials (I-Adverbials). In support of this proposal I present evidence that they differ in two ways: (i) They select different arguments: A-Adverbials require an agent, I-Adverbials require an initiator. I discuss additional restrictions on their interpretation and formulate lexical entries for each subtype. (ii) The two types provide different interpretation options: While A-Adverbials adhere strictly to the principle of compositionality, I-Adverbials allow pragmatically driven coercion. On the basis of this case study of mental attitude adverbials, I take a close look at the capabilities of and constraints on coercion. With this in mind, I examine the relation between the semantics and pragmatics of mental attitude adverbials in more detail. I show that particular grammatical restrictions on them also hold true under coercion, so that they continue to regulate and to restrict interpretation in these cases. Here admittedly, in contrast to compositional interpretation, the grammatical restrictions can be implemented more flexibly, i.e., they can be fulfilled at the conceptual level. This explains why coercion is limited to I-Adverbials: In the case of coercion, the conceptual structures of A-Adverbials do not satisfy these grammatical restrictions on their interpretation.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/80335