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

在德语中，wh词wie（'how'）所嵌入的补语从句有两种不同的理解。第一种是阅读方式，表达做某事的方式或方法。在本文中，第二个事件称为事件事件，因为它表示正在进行的事件而不是方式。排除wie的歧义，提出了一个问题，为什么要使用礼貌用语来表达正在进行的事件。本文中的基本语义假设是wie表达相似性（例如在明喻中也是如此）。本文从观察开始，在阅读方式魏某在动词旁边具有基本位置，并且是事件类型的修饰符，而在最终阅读中，它是在VP上方以碱基生成的，因此添加了有关事件标记的信息。该分析包括两个部分：首先，将方式视为相似事件的集合（而不是原始对象），尤其将方法视为相似子事件序列的集合。其次，进行中的事件被视为相似自然连续性集合中的初始序列。从这个角度来看，进行中的事件就像是一种方法，该方法包括共享同一初始部分的子事件序列。这种分析提供了一个语义解释解释为什么疑问词魏某 根据是否修改事件类型或事件标记来表示常规方式阅读和最终阅读。