Beyond expressives : : explorations in use-conditional meaning / / edited by Daniel Gutzmann, Hans-Martin Gartner.

• Superior document: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; Volume 28
• Author: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Jahrestagung
• TeilnehmendeR: Gutzmann, Daniel,; Gärtner, Hans-Martin,; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Jahrestagung
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2013.; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 322 pages )
• Notes: Includes index.; "The papers collected in this volume grew out of a workshop on Expressives and other kinds of non-truth-conditional meaning, which was held in March 2009 at University of Osnabruck as part of the 31st annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)."

Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning offers empirical and theoretical studies of expressions whose meaning falls outside the standard realm of truth-conditional semantics. Aspects of meaning that are better captured by their use-conditions instead came into the spotlight of formal semantics recently, mainly due to the raised interest in expressions like interjections or swear words. Going beyond such expressives, the contributions provide detailed semantic analyses of a broad range of use-conditional items, including particles, non-inflectional constructions, personal datives and interpretational effects of focus. This volume thereby proves that the empirical domain of use-conditional meaning is as diverse as the truth-conditional one, equally amenable to systematic semantic treatments. This book is an exciting, eye-opening collection of novel and challenging data from English, German and Japanese. For anyone who needs persuading that there is more to language expressivity than informational content, this book is a must. For those who need no persuading, this book will be no less a treat. It offers to all not merely sets of entrancing new observations, but also analyses which feed one’s imagination as to how best to extend current methodologies to make these data tractable for formal modelling. Ruth Kempson, King’s College

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Daniel Gutzmann and Hans-Martin Gärtner -- Expressives and beyond: An introduction to varieties of use-conditional meaning / Daniel Gutzmann -- German non-inflectional constructions as separate performatives / Sebastian Bücking and Jennifer Rau -- Modal particles and context shift / Sophia Döring -- Discourse particles, common ground, and felicity conditions / Markus Egg -- I love me some datives: Expressive meaning, free datives, and F-implicature / Laurence R. Horn -- Good reasons / Eric McCready and Yohei Takahashi -- Common ground management: Modal particles, illocutionary negation and verum / Sophie Repp -- Biased polar questions in English and Japanese / Yasutada Sudo -- Expressing surprise by particles / Henk Zeevat -- Index / Daniel Gutzmann and Hans-Martin Gärtner.