UDC

81'36:811.112.2

DOI

10.37482/2687-1505-V156

Authors

Olesya P. Kolesnikova
Don State Technical University; pl. Gagarina 1, Rostov-on-Don, 344010, Russian Federation; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4076-1288 e-mail: Ole-ole-olesija@yandex.ru

Abstract

This paper discusses the grammatical tense form Konjunktiv II and its use in enantiosemic syntactic constructions with the als würde component. The concept of enantiosemy at the syntactic level in the German language and the concept of asymmetry in syntactic constructions are investigated. The research material included fiction in German and examples from the German DWDS corpus. The main content of the work is the analysis of enantiosemic syntactic constructions with als würde. The following methods were used: comparison and analysis of the structural and semantic features of enantiosemic syntactic constructions and contextual analysis. During the  research, syntactic models of sentences with enantiosemic meaning were identified, as well as conditions contributing to the development of their opposite meaning. The paper studied enantiosemic syntactic constructions in the form of complex sentences with an adverbial clause of comparison with als würde, including the verb of behaviour tun and verbs of impression aussehen, scheinen, klingen, as well as with the component es war in the main clause. The research revealed that enantiosemy, which is characterized by asymmetry of form and content, is inherent in these syntactic constructions. The analysis of enantiosemic syntactic constructions with als würde demonstrated that they do not require context in order to be recognized, since the discrepancy between grammatical form and content is inherent in the constructions, namely, in the adverbial clauses of comparison expressing an unreal action. According to the results, certain schemes of syntactic constructions with enantiosemic meaning can be introduced into scientific discourse, which can help identify such constructions in the German language and facilitate further research into the issues of German semantics, stylistics, and syntax.

For citation: Kolesnikova O.P. Enantiosemic Syntactic Constructions with als würde in German. Vestnik Severnogo (Arkticheskogo) federal’nogo universiteta. Ser.: Gumanitarnye i sotsial’nye nauki, 2022, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 73–79. DOI: 10.37482/2687-1505-V156

Keywords

syntactic construction, enantiosemy, context, Konjunktiv II, linguistic asymmetry, adverbial clauses of comparison, enantiosemic meaning, German syntax

References

1. Melikyan V.Yu., Melikyan A.V. The Phenomenon of Syntactic Semioimplication. Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Slowianskiej, 2018, vol. 53, pp. 348–368. DOI: 10.11649/sfps.2018.021
2. Ostrikova G.N. Spetsifika funktsionirovaniya enantiosemichnykh ustoychivykh sintaksicheskikh struktur [Enantiosemic Fixed Syntactic Structures: Specifics of Functioning]. Voprosy kognitivnoy lingvistiki, 2017, no. 3, pp. 148–154.
3. Lopatina L.E. Sintaksicheskaya konstruktsiya [Syntactic Construction]. Bol’shaya rossiyskaya entsiklopediya [Great Russian Encyclopaedia]. Available at: https://bigenc.ru/linguistics/text/4127679 (accessed: 10 September 2021).
4. Ostrikova G.N., Melnik A.D. The Features of Phraseological Structures Functioning in the Dialogic Text, Based on German Prose. Eur. Proc. Soc. Behav. Sci., 2020, vol. 95, pp. 716–722. DOI: 10.15405/epsbs.2020.11.03.76
5. Ostrikova G.N., Kolesnikova O.P. O nekotorykh voprositel’nykh predlozheniyakh s enantiosemichnym znacheniem v nemetskom yazyke [On Some Interrogative Sentences with Enantiosemic Meaning in the German Language]. Problemy issledovaniya i prepodavaniya inostrannykh yazykov v polikul’turnom prostranstve [Challenges of Foreign Language Research and Teaching in a Multicultural Space]. Krasnodar, 2019, pp. 89–92.
6. Ostrikova G.N. Ob ekspressivnosti enantiosemichnykh leksicheskikh frazeologizmov v nemetskom yazyke [On the Expressiveness of Enantiosemantic Lexical Phraseological Units in German]. Gumanitarnye i sotsial’nye nauki, 2013, no. 4, pp. 159–167. Available at: http://hses-online.ru/2013/04/10_02_19/18.pdf (accessed: 9 September 2021).
7. Jung W. Grammatik der deutschen Sprache. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographische Institut, 1980. 488 s.
8. Shendel’s E.I. Otritsanie kak lingvisticheskoe ponyatie (na materiale nemetskogo yazyka) [Negation as a Linguistic Concept (Based on the German Language)]. Uchenye zapiski Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo instituta inostrannykh yazykov im. Morisa Toreza [Proceedings of Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages]. Moscow, 1959. Vol. 19, pp. 104–110.
9. Ishmet’eva E.Ya. Ob osobennostyakh ispol’zovaniya formy Konjunktiv II v grammatike nemetskogo yazyka [On the Use of the Konjunktiv II in German Grammar]. Novaya nauka: Problemy i perspektivy, 2016, no. 115-3, pp. 131–133.
10. Pavlova A.V. Nesovpadenie v upotreblenii soslagatel’nogo nakloneniya (Konjunktiv) v russkom i nemetskom yazykakh [Discrepancy Between the Use of the Subjunctive Mood (Konjunktiv) in Russian and German]. Vysshee gumanitarnoe obrazovanie XXI veka: problemy i perspektivy. T. 2. Filologiya i drugie nauki [Higher Education in the Humanities in the 21st Century: Problems and Prospects. Vol. 2. Philology and Other Disciplines]. Samara, 2009, pp. 281–283.
11. Nozdrina A.S. Grammatika E.I. Shendel’s v novom formate vospriyatiya. Na primere izucheniya form soslagatel’nogo nakloneniya (der Konjunktiv) [E.I. Shendels’ Grammar in a New Format of Perception. The Case of Conjunctive Mood Forms (der Konjunktiv)]. Vestnik Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo lingvisticheskogo universiteta. Gumanitarnye nauki, 2019, no. 1, pp. 269–284.
12. Grossman L. Fillory: Die Zauberer. Fischer Taschenbuch, 2010. 624 p.
13. Meyer S. Biss zum Morgengrauen. Carlsen Verlag GmbH, 2017. 514 p.