TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kosta, Peter
T1  - Ambiguity and humor in translation
JF  - Zeitschrift für Slawistik
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1524/slaw.2013.58.3.297
SN  - 0044-3506
VL  - 58
IS  - 3
SP  - 297
EP  - 324
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kosta, Peter
T1  - How can I lie if I am telling the truth? : the unbearable lightness of being of strong and weak modals, modal adverbs and modal particles in discourse between epistemic modality and evidentiality
N2  - How can I lie if I am telling the truth? The unbearable lightness of being of strong and weak modals, modal adverbs and modal particles in discourse between epistemic modality and evidentiality Peter Kosta The major part of my contribution will concentrate on the close relation between epistemic modality and evidentiality and the notions of truth value, indirect speech acts and conversational implicature (cf. Kosta 2005; Kosta 2011b). It is well attested in the literature that the epistemic modal adverb Russian o;evidno, Czech o;ividn;, German offensichtlich, Italian ovviamente can have different interpretation depending on the conversation situation, truth values and scope relations (cf. Kosta 2011a; von Fintel and Gillies 2010; Kratzer 2010). Even a bona fide "epistemicö modal can have two interpretations: a 'strong' interpretation, which - at least with necessity modals - commits the speaker to the truth of the proposition the modal scopes over (von Fintel and Gillies 2010), and a 'weak' interpretation, which is relativized to the content of some source of information that may or may not be faithful to reality. In order to be able to decide whether epistemic particles and modals are strong or weak we have to differentiate between different sources of conversational backgrounds. Following the findings in the research of notional category of modals in Kratzer (2010), the proposed analysis of modals allows for one modal parameter to be fixed by the context of use. It implies that that parameter is responsible for the variety of interpretations modals can receive. Keywords: epistemic modality, evidentiality, strong and weak modals, conversational background In: Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta (eds.), Approaches to Slavic Interaction . 2013. xi, 318 pp. (pp. 167-184)
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 978-90-272-1037-1
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Krivochen, Diego Gabriel
A1  - Kosta, Peter
T1  - Eliminating empty categories : a radically minimalist view on their ontology and justification
T3  - Potsdam linguistic investigations = Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen = Recherches linguistiques à Potsdam
N2  - This collaborative book has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, the authors present a new framework - Radical Minimalism. The development of such a framework, with a strong basis on mathematics and physics, was born out of the conviction that, if language is really a natural object, there is no a priori reason to study it in isolation from other natural systems. On the other hand, this work represents a significant simplification of the theory of displacement and so-called «empty categories» within the latest development of Chomsky's Strong Minimalist Hypothesis, applying Occam's razor and fulfilling Lakatos' requirements for scientific evolution. Radical Minimalism thus accounts not only for the phenomena orthodox minimalism has explanations for, but also for empirical problems that have not yet been taken into consideration.
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://www.peterlang.com/ index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=73701&cid=5&concordeid=262728
SN  - 978-3-631-62728-0
VL  - 11
PB  - Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
CY  - Frankfurt
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kosta, Peter
T1  - Die Tschechoslowakei seit 1918
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 978-3-86312-363-5
ER  -