This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

In the past decades of research, questions have become a very prominent topic at the
semantics-pragmatics interface. Certainly, they are a natural and challenging topic for any …

Interactants depend on background knowledge and commonsense inferences to establish
and maintain intersubjectivity. This study investigates how the resources of language—or …

This dissertation proposes a novel approach to tracking not-at-issue contributions to
discourse by bringing together several strands of research concerning evidentiality …

Discourse particles: Formal approaches to their syntax and semantics Discourse Particles Page
2 Linguistische Arbeiten Edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Gereon Müller, Ingo Plag, Beatrice …

This chapter aims to provide an overview of core questions concerning the nature of so‐
called discourse particles, such as German ja and doch. It starts by exploring the similarity …

Optative utterances express a wish, regret, hope or desire without an overt lexical item that
means wish, regret, hope or desire (cf. Quirk et al. 1972, 1985; Scholz 1991; Rosengren …

6.3. 1 Introduction Let us return to the question of whether the two readings differ in event
complexity. This would mean that the verbs under discussion productively have two event …

Unaccented German discourse particles have received detailed formal analyses in recent
literature (eg, Karagjosova, 2004, Kratzer and Matthewson, 2009, Zimmermann, 2008 …

As Oehrle (1976): 25 observes, contrary to give, offer with an agentive subject necessitates
only that the possessor is willing to give the internal argument's referent up to somebody: no …