The present paper is an attempt at a morphosyntactic classifi cation of adadverbial attributes in German and Polish adverbial phrases. The morphosyntactic classification of adverbial phrases serves the purpose of representing their possible morphological occurrence. The general goal of this classification, on the other hand, is to show the prenuclear and postnuclear positions of the attributes in adverbial phrases in German and Polish. The general aim of the presented German-Polish contrastive classif cation is to underline the structural differences between these two languages and the influence of these differences on the structure of adverbial phrases.