СИНТАКСИЧЕСКАЯ НЕПОДЧИНИМОСТЬ МОДАЛЬНЫХ СЛОВ С СУФФИКСОМ -WEISE В НЕМЕЦКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to substantiate from the idea of asymmetry which of the derivatives of modal words with the suffix -weise can occur in illocutionary dependent subordinate clauses after factive predicates in a matrix sentence, and which will be syntactically insubordinate. The purpose determined the following tasks to be solved: (1) to analyze the types of modal meanings conveyed by the modal words with the suffix -weise; (2) to identify similarities and dif-ferences of emotive and cognitive predicates; (3) to determine which of the modal words with the suffix -weise are syn-tactically subordinate to the factive predicates; (4) to describe the correlation between the modal specifics of these words and their syntactic subordination. The study has found that the derived modal words with the suffix -weise are heterogeneous in their semantics and can express evaluative, evidential and epistemic meaning. By using the corpus of the German language DWDS, the author shows that the position of the analyzed words in the object subordinate clauses after the emotive predicates bezweifeln, bedauern, bereuen in the matrix sentence is atypical, because their factivity is connected with the presumption that the proposition is true. These modal words show a confident tendency toward a propositional setting, combining indefinitely with factive verbs. Modal words with the suffix -weise demon-strate a freer syntactic compatibility after the cognitive semifactive verb wissen, which loses its factivity in certain con-texts and allows in this case an epistemic interpretation of the proposition. The paper notes that the syntactic insubor-dination of modal words is caused on the one hand by the specifics of emotive and cognitive factives, and on the other hand by the versatility of the semantics of modal words.