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Speaker-Oriented Adverbs of the German '-weise' Sort

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Speaker-oriented adverbs (SpOAs) such as gl¨ucklicherweise ‘fortunately’ in German constitute a secondary proposition by predicating over the main proposition and a syntactically often silent argument ‘Beneficient’. Since SpOAs take wide scope, quantifying adverbs, whether negative or positive, may not precede them syntactically as otherwise they would compete for scope-taking over the rest of the sentence and this would cause a clash with the semantics of SpOAs. By uttering a sentence with a SpOA, the speaker performs two illocutionary acts, one assertive and the other expressive about the same propositional content p. The expressive speech act presupposes the assertive one, which is why any use of SpOAs presupposes the truth of p.

Source: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung

DOI: 10.18148/sub/2009.v13i2.555

Author: Liu, Mingya

Institution: University of Tübingen

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W151282113

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