TY  - JOUR
A1  - Grubic, Mira
A1  - Wierzba, Marta
T1  - The German additive particle noch
BT  - testing the role of topic situations
JF  - Glossa : a journal of general linguistics
N2  - The particle noch (‘still’) can have an additive reading similar to auch (‘also’). We argue that both particles indicate that a previously partially answered QUD is re-opened to add a further answer. The particles differ in that the QUD, in the case of auch, can be re-opened with respect to the same topic situation, whereas noch indicates that the QUD is re-opened with respect to a new topic situation. This account predicts a difference in the accommodation behavior of the two particles. We present an experiment whose results are in line with this prediction.
KW  - additive particles
KW  - noch
KW  - auch
KW  - German
KW  - topic situation
KW  - semantics
KW  - experiments
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1275
SN  - 2397-1835
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
PB  - Ubiquity Press
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Alxatib, Sam
A1  - Sauerland, Ulrich
T1  - Vagueness
JF  - The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
N2  - Though vague phenomena have been studied extensively for many decades, it is only in recent years that researchers sought the support of quantitative data. This chapter highlights and discusses the insights that experimental methods brought to the study of vagueness. One area focused on are ‘borderline contradictions’, that is, sentences like ‘She is neither tall nor not tall’ that are contradictory when analysed in classical logic, but are actually acceptable as descriptions of borderline cases. The flourishing of theories and experimental studies that borderline contradictions have led to are examined closely. Beyond this illustrative case, an overview of recent studies that concern the classification of types of vagueness, the use of numbers, rounding, number modification, and the general pragmatic status of vagueness is provided.
KW  - vagueness
KW  - gradability
KW  - categories
KW  - borderline cases
KW  - contradiction
KW  - valency
KW  - imprecision
KW  - hysteresis
KW  - pragmatics
KW  - semantics
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198791768.013.24
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Leminen, Alina
A1  - Lehtonen, Minna
A1  - Bozic, Mirjana
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Editorial: Morphologically Complex Words in the Mind/Brain
T2  - Frontiers in human neuroscienc
KW  - morphology
KW  - derivation
KW  - inflection
KW  - compound
KW  - L2
KW  - dyslexia
KW  - semantics
KW  - decomposition
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00047
SN  - 1662-5161
VL  - 10
SP  - 150
EP  - 160
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gueldemann, Tom
A1  - Zerbian, Sabine
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
ED  - Liberman, M
ED  - Partee, BH
T1  - Variation in information structure with special reference to Africa
JF  - Annual review of linguistics
JF  - Annual Review of Linguistics
N2  - Information structure has been one of the central topics of recent linguistic research. This review discusses a wide range of current approaches with particular reference to African languages, as these have been playing a crucial role in advancing our knowledge about the diversity of and recurring patterns in both meaning and form of information structural notions. We focus on cross-linguistic functional frameworks, the investigation of prosody, formal syntactic theories, and relevant effects of semantic interpretation. Information structure is a thriving research domain that promises to yield important advances in our general understanding of human language.
KW  - contrast
KW  - focus
KW  - formal syntax
KW  - prosody
KW  - theticity
KW  - topic
KW  - semantics
KW  - focus sensitivity
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 978-0-8243-4201-2
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-125134
SN  - 2333-9691
VL  - 1
SP  - 155
EP  - 178
PB  - Annual Reviews
CY  - Palo Alto
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wittenberg, Eva
A1  - Snedeker, Jesse
T1  - It takes two to kiss, but does it take three to give a kiss? Categorization based on thematic roles
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
KW  - events
KW  - argument structure
KW  - conceptualization
KW  - sorting task
KW  - syntax
KW  - semantics
KW  - light-verb constructions
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2013.831918
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 29
IS  - 5
SP  - 635
EP  - 641
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -