THE STATUS OF APPOSITION STRUCTURES IN THE MODERN GERMAN LANGUAGE

• Main Author: S. V. Muratova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2018-12-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: apposition; connected apposition; free apposition; appositional compounds; restrictive attribute; non-restrictive attribute; juxtaposition; expanding nouns
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/2592

The research features the structures interpreted by many modern linguists as apposition. The spectrum of such structures is wide and varied. The identification of the relevant attributes of the category of apposition in the modern German language makes it possible to differentiate apposition from adjacent and similar syntactic formations. The main feature of apposition, which reflects their specificity, is the identical denotative correlation of the components. In the structural aspect, there are two models of apposition – free and connected ones. The main criteria for dividing apposition constructions into free and associated ones are the ability of the apposition group to expand and the intonational design, i.e. a merged or punctuated intonation. A separate version of the application fully meets the main feature of the apposition. An analysis of the structures attributable to the group of the associated application made it possible to narrow the group of apposition constructions. The author used the method of component  elimination. The structural formula of a bound apposition (N-N in a monoflective) became the basis for the formation of structures with a different semantics from the apposition.