Duffner, Rolf

2010, Duffner, Rolf, Näf, Anton, Kamber, Alain, Savoy, Jacques, Steyer, Kathrin, Teubert, Wolfgang

German linguistic literature shows a great lack of empirical studies of sentence adverbs. In dictionaries, indications about their significance and linguistic application are often inappropriate or even misleading. Apart from that, there is little corpus linguistic research about synsemantica in the German language. The following study will describe sentence adverbs in the Deutsche Referenzkorpus, the methodical approach (incl. Cluster analyses) and the representation of sentence adverbs in German dictionaries. The use of 25 of the most frequent sentence adverbs will be analysed in detail. This will finally lead to a corpus-driven description of typical context, modality, negation and syntax of sentence adverbs in German.