Semantic Heterogeneity of German Adverbs Formed from Participles
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5075-2025-2-123-131
Abstract
Aim. To identify semantic differences in derivative adverbs caused by the presence/absence of adjectivization of the producing words (participles).
Methodology. The author conducted a corpus study of adverbs with the suffix-weise, including observation, generalization and description of the meanings realized by them. Using the comparative method, subsequent established semantic similarities and transformations are carried out, conditioned by the status of the derivative base (participle or adjectival participle).
Results. The analysis showed that adverbs formed from participial adjectives correspond to evaluative sentence adverbs in terms of their semantic parameters. Adverbs based on a participle can express the meaning of simultaneity of actions, accompanying circumstances, compatibility or instrumentality.
Research implications. The study deepens the understanding of word-formation relations in language, in particular, the semantic determinacy of a derivative adverb by the meaning of the productive base.
About the Author
T. V. Pervak
Federal State University of Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tatiana V. Pervak – Cand . Sci . (Philology), Assoc. Prof., Department of German and Roman Philology
Moscow
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