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Media type:
Book;
Thesis
Title:
Two-dimensional semantics
:
clausal adjuncts and complements
Contains:
Two-dimensional semantics.Conventional implicature ;Conventional implicatures vs. presuppositions;A discourse logicSentence adverbs.Types of sentence adverbs ;Semantic unembeddability;Antecedent of conditionals;Questions;Negation;Denial;Attitude verbs;Semantic (un)embeddability of sentence adverbs ;Properties of german sentence adverbs;The probably type;The unfortunately type;The frankly type;Frankly speaking;Properties of three types of sentence adverbs ;Sentence adverbs on two semantic dimensions ;Syntax/semantics mismatch;An anaphoric approach to utterance modification ;SummaryDenn and weil : causal connectives in two dimensions.Data;Two german words for 'Because';Epistemic and speech act uses;Three exceptions to the use of denn ;Previous work;The performative analysis;Denn and antibackgrounding ;Semantics of denn;Denn as a conventional implicature item;Unembeddability of denn;Formalizing denn's semantics ;Syntax of denn ;The distribution of denn vs. weil explained;Denn in epistemic and speech act causal sentences;Three exceptions to the use of denn ;Further issues;Epistemic and speech act uses of weil;English because;Embedding under non-restrictive relative clauses ;SummaryRelevance conditionals : if on another dimension.Crucial properties of relevance conditionals;Semantic unembeddability;Illocutionary status of the consequent;Syntactic unintegration ;The analysis : 'If' on two dimensions;Proposal;Net effect of the if-clause in RCs;Discussion ;Previous accounts;Conditional assertion accounts;Existential quantification over potential literal acts;Relevance conditionals as topics ;SummaryA paradigm of adjuncts on two dimensions.Taking stock;Syntactic unintegration;Argument types of CI modifiers ;Although ;Modifiers on different dimensionsComplement clauses.Attitude verbs and their complements;V2 embedding;Slifting;Properties of slifting vs. V2 embedding ;Verbs that allow slifting and V2 complements;Which verbs allow V2 complements?;Which verbs do not allow V2 complements?;Slifting verbs;Generalization : epistemicity ;Slifting as evidentials;Analysis;Slifting and verb classes;Slifting and semantic embedding;Summary : slifting ;V2 complement clauses;Analysis;V2 complement clause
University thesis:
Teilw. zugl.: Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Diss., 2008 u.d.T.: Scheffler, Tatjana: Semantic operators in different dimensions