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Two-dimensional semantics clausal adjuncts and complements / Tatjana Scheffler.
| Author/creator | Scheffler, Tatjana |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013] |
| Description | vii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Linguistische Arbeiten, 0344-6727 ; 549 Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 549. ^A321229 |
| Contents | Two-dimensional semantics. Conventional implicature ; Conventional implicatures vs. presuppositions; A discourse logic -- Sentence adverbs. Types of sentence adverbs ; Semantic unembeddability; Antecedent of conditionals; Questions; Negation; Denial; Attitude verbs; Semantic (un)embeddability of sentence adverbs ; Properties of german sentence adverbs; The probably type; The unfortunately type; The frankly type; Frankly speaking; Properties of three types of sentence adverbs ; Sentence adverbs on two semantic dimensions ; Syntax/semantics mismatch; An anaphoric approach to utterance modification ; Summary -- Denn and weil : causal connectives in two dimensions. Data; Two german words for 'Because'; Epistemic and speech act uses; Three exceptions to the use of denn ; Previous work; The performative analysis; Denn and antibackgrounding ; Semantics of denn; Denn as a conventional implicature item; Unembeddability of denn; Formalizing denn's semantics ; Syntax of denn ; The distribution of denn vs. weil explained; Denn in epistemic and speech act causal sentences; Three exceptions to the use of denn ; Further issues; Epistemic and speech act uses of weil; English because; Embedding under non-restrictive relative clauses ; Summary -- Relevance conditionals : if on another dimension. Crucial properties of relevance conditionals; Semantic unembeddability; Illocutionary status of the consequent; Syntactic unintegration ; The analysis : 'If' on two dimensions; Proposal; Net effect of the if-clause in RCs; Discussion ; Previous accounts; Conditional assertion accounts; Existential quantification over potential literal acts; Relevance conditionals as topics ; Summary -- A paradigm of adjuncts on two dimensions. Taking stock; Syntactic unintegration; Argument types of CI modifiers ; Although ; Modifiers on different dimensions -- Complement clauses. Attitude verbs and their complements; V2 embedding; Slifting; Properties of slifting vs. V2 embedding ; Verbs that allow slifting and V2 complements; Which verbs allow V2 complements?; Which verbs do not allow V2 complements?; Slifting verbs; Generalization : epistemicity ; Slifting as evidentials; Analysis; Slifting and verb classes; Slifting and semantic embedding; Summary : slifting ; V2 complement clauses; Analysis; V2 complement clauses and verb classes; V2 complement clauses and semantic embedding; Summary : V2 complement clauses ; Summary : V2 complements & slifting -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Term index -- Author index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013409536 |
| ISBN | 9783110302141 (hd. bd. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 3110302144 (hd. bd. : acid-free paper) |
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