Two-dimensional Semantics Clausal Adjuncts and Complements

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 phenomen...

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1. Verfasser: Scheffler, Tatjana
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Germany De Gruyter 2013
De Gruyter, Inc
De Gruyter Mouton
Ausgabe:1
Schriftenreihe:Linguistische Arbeiten
Schlagworte:
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / German
German language > Clauses
German language > Semantics
Implicature
Implikatur
Language
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Semantics
Semantics (Philosophy)
Semantik
Speech Act Theory
Sprechakttheorie
Sprechakttheorie
Implicature
Implikatur
Semantics
Speech Act Theory
Semantik
ISBN:9783110302332, 3110302330, 9783110302141, 3110302144
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182) and indexes
ISBN:9783110302332
3110302330
9783110302141
3110302144
DOI:10.1515/9783110302332