03637nam 2200709 a 450 991077973460332120230803021042.03-11-030233-010.1515/9783110302332(CKB)2550000001097047(EBL)1058537(OCoLC)828794349(SSID)ssj0000909072(PQKBManifestationID)11584375(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000909072(PQKBWorkID)10912087(PQKB)10746902(MiAaPQ)EBC1058537(DE-B1597)179542(OCoLC)979838498(OCoLC)987921646(OCoLC)992471854(DE-B1597)9783110302332(Au-PeEL)EBL1058537(CaPaEBR)ebr10662044(CaONFJC)MIL503581(EXLCZ)99255000000109704720130308d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTwo-dimensional semantics[electronic resource] clausal adjuncts and complements /Tatjana SchefflerBerlin De Gruyter20131 online resource (196 p.)Linguistische Arbeiten,0344-6727 ;549Description based upon print version of record.3-11-030214-4 1-299-72330-6 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Two-Dimensional Semantics -- 3 Sentence Adverbs -- 4 Denn and Weil - Causal Connectives in Two Dimensions -- 5 Relevance Conditionals - If on Another Dimension -- 6 A Paradigm of Adjuncts on Two Dimensions -- 7 Complement Clauses on Different Dimensions -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Term Index -- Author IndexThis 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.Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;549.SemanticsSemantics (Philosophy)Implicature.Semantics.Speech Act Theory.Semantics.Semantics (Philosophy)401.43401/.43GC 7205rvkScheffler Tatjana1499429MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779734603321Two-dimensional semantics3725444UNINA