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Der Schein trügt nämlich

  • The German particle nämlich is puzzling because it seems to have two independent semantic functions which strictly correlate with specific syntactic environments: if nämlich precedes an ,,orphan constituent" (Haegeman 1991) it specifies an underspecified discourse referent in the previous clause, and if nämlich appears in a whole clause its function is marking that the hostclause delivers an explanation to the previous clause. A polysemy- or even homonymy-analysis seems problematic precisely because of this strict correlation between syntactic environment and semantic function. In this paper we propose a unified analysis of nämlich. We argue that nämlich marks the property of the context that there is an implicit question to which the host of nämlich delivers a direct (short) answer (Jacobson 2008). Crucially, constituents are good short answers to constituent-questions (Who?), while whole clauses are only good short-answers to ,,sentence"-questions like Why p? Building on these intuitions we show how both readings of nämlich can systematically be derived and implement our analysis formally.

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Author:Edgar Onea, Anna Volodina
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-52680
ISSN:0024-3930
Parent Title (German):Linguistische Berichte
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Year of first Publication:2009
Date of Publication (online):2016/09/15
Publicationstate:Veröffentlichungsversion
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
GND Keyword:Deutsch; Kausalsatz; Partikel; nämlich <Lemma>
Volume:2009
Issue:219
First Page:291
Last Page:321
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Leibniz-Classification:Sprache, Linguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Lexikologie / Etymologie
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt