出版物 ｜Sophia Linguistica
川名真矢
On Extended Usages of Weather Verbs in German -A Comparison of Two Sentence Types-
This paper deals with three representative weather verbs in German, regnen ‘rain’, schneien ‘snow’ and hageln ‘hail’. These verbs can be used in figurative meanings and appear in two sentence types. The two types both describe a situation in which neither rain, snow nor hail but some object is falling. One of the two sentence types to be called ES+AKK-Typ obligatorily contains expletive es ‘it’ and an accusative noun, while the other sentence type to be called NOM-Typ does not require the same expletive but contains a nominative noun. It will be attempted to make the difference between two sentence types clear. For this purpose, more than 200 authentic examples of each sentence type collected mainly in internet will be classified in terms of psychological and linguistic factors. Furthermore, the result of a short survey cooperated by 10 native speakers will be shown. Based on these data, it will be mainly explored how ES+AKK-Typ is functionally different from NOM-Typ.
