Eintrag

Titel

Presentational/existential structures in spoken versus written German: es gibt and sein

Personen

Regina Weinert

Jahr

2013

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Journal of Germanic linguistics

ISSN

1470-5427

Seiten

37 - 79

Band

25

Heft

1

Schlagwörter

Gesprochene Sprache
Nominalstruktur
Syntax

Objektwörter

es gibt
sein

Abstract

This article presents a synchronic, corpus-based examination of spoken German with regard to the distribution and function of presentational/existential es gibt NP and a range of sein NP structures such as da sein, locative sein, es sein, and zero-locative sein. In particular, the use of da sein has been neglected in previous research. While es gibt is equally frequent in the spoken and written data, sein structures are typical of spoken German only, with da sein being the most frequent. The article concentrates on clauses with indefinite NPs, while the presentation of events with da and wider da-usage in spoken German are also considered.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/81569