LINGUIST List 24.491

Mon Jan 28 2013

Books: Two-dimensional Semantics: Scheffler

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Date: 24-Jan-2013
From: Linda Steglich <linda.steglichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Two-dimensional Semantics: Scheffler
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Title: Two-dimensional Semantics Subtitle: Clausal Adjuncts and Complements Series Title: De Gruyter Linguistische Arbeiten 549 Published: 2013 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/186382?format=G

Author: Tatjana Scheffler Electronic: ISBN: 9783110302332 Pages: 188 Price: Europe EURO 79.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110302141 Pages: 188 Price: Europe EURO 79.95
Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics                             Syntax
Subject Language(s): German (deu)
Written In: English (eng)

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