This article is concerned with the grammatical properties and interpretations of a particular type of verb‐first‐clause in German, in passing also looking at the Wo‐verb‐end‐clause. Based on corpus data and a judgement study, characteristics which have been attributed to these clause types will be questioned: The assumption that the utterances’ contents is presupposed and that this is why doch occurs in this context so often will be rejected. Data also show that the strict association of verb‐first and causality, on the one hand, and Wo‐verb‐end and concessivity, on the other hand, is too strong an assumption. It will be claimed that doch is indirectly responsible for causality by assuming that a causal default interpretation is decisive. The proposed modelling of doch provides an explanation why the particle facilitates the causal reading and it also allows to derive certain stylistic effects.

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关于因果动词优先条款的解释和使用

本文关注德语中一种特殊类型的动词-从句的语法特性和解释，同时还介绍了Wo动词-结尾从句。基于语料库数据和判断研究，将质疑归因于这些从句类型的特征：假设话语的内容是预设的，并且这就是为什么在这种情况下经常出现doch的原因。数据还表明，一方面动词优先和因果关系的严格关联，另一方面，Wo动词结束和让步的严格关联是一个很强的假设。将声称，多奇通过假设因果默认解释是决定性的，间接负责因果关系。拟议的doch建模提供了一个解释，为什么粒子有助于因果读取，并且还允许派生某些样式效果。