Der Ausdruck der Konzessivität in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache

ISBN-13: 9783484303720 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 1997 / 348 str.

Claudio Di Meola

Opis

This study based on a rich corpus of written texts examines first of all the concept of concession and defines it as 'covert causality'. This is then taken as the foundation for a typology of the various concessive values. After a survey of the major connectives in German (subordinating, coordinating, prepositional), the study concentrates on an analysis of the subordinating constructions. A comparison with Italian shows that in both languages the morphological structure of a connective has a decisive influence on the semantic and syntactic features of the construction in which it figures.