German wie-complements

Abstract In German, complement clauses embedded by the wh-word wie (‘how’) have two different readings. The first is a manner reading expressing or method of doing something. second called eventive in this paper because it expresses an event progress instead manner. Ruling out ambiguity , question arises why word used to express progress. basic semantic hypothesis that similarity (as does in, e.g., similes). starts from observation has base position next verb and modifier type whereas base-generated above VP thus adds information about token. analysis includes components: First, manners are considered as sets similar events (instead primitive objects), methods, particular, sequences subevents. Secondly, seen initial natural continuations. From point view, like comprising subevents share same part. This provides interpretation explaining both regular depending on whether modifies