UID:
almahu_9949481429202882
Format:
1 online resource (188 p.)
ISBN:
9783110302332
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Linguistische Arbeiten , 549
Content:
This book argues that in order to account for the compositional behavior of many near-synonymous items, semantic analyses need to pay close attention to at least two semantic dimensions: standard assertions and conventional implicatures, which express additional side comments. The discussed phenomena are clausal adjuncts and complements in German. The new analysis of 'weil' and 'denn' ('because') shows that both contribute the same semantic operator, but one as an assertion, the other as a conventional implicature. This explains why only 'denn' can have speech-act modifying uses. This novel two-dimensional analysis is extended to other sentence adjuncts such as regular vs. relevance conditionals, although-clauses, and sentence adverbs. Further, the book investigates certain complement clauses. It analyzes sliftings as evidential-like parentheticals which contribute their meaning on the conventional implicature dimension. In contrast, German embedded verb-second clauses are shown to be truly embedded and analyzed as operating in the assertion dimension. The verb-second syntax is shown to contribute an additional epistemic component on the conventional implicature dimension.
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Dissertation Univ. of Pennsylvania 2012.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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1 Introduction --
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2 Two-Dimensional Semantics --
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3 Sentence Adverbs --
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4 Denn and Weil - Causal Connectives in Two Dimensions --
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5 Relevance Conditionals - If on Another Dimension --
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6 A Paradigm of Adjuncts on Two Dimensions --
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7 Complement Clauses on Different Dimensions --
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8 Conclusion --
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Bibliography --
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Term Index --
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Author Index
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238457
In:
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
In:
De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015, De Gruyter, 9783110742961
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317350
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317244
In:
E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317237
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110302141
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9783110302332
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110302332
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110302332
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