The German additive particle noch
- 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.
| Author details: | Mira GrubicORCiDGND, Marta WierzbaORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1275 |
| ISSN: | 2397-1835 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Glossa : a journal of general linguistics |
| Subtitle (English): | testing the role of topic situations |
| Publisher: | Ubiquity Press |
| Place of publishing: | London |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/04/08 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2021/06/16 |
| Tag: | auch; noch German; additive particles; experiments; semantics; topic situation |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Article number: | 36 |
| Number of pages: | 29 |
| Funding institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Funding number: | PA 2021_010 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Grantor: | Publikationsfonds der Universität Potsdam |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 709 |
