Modality and Speech Acts: Troubled by German Ruhig

  • Magdalena Schwager
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6042)

Abstract

This paper aims to explain the distribution and effect of the German modal particle ruhig, which is argued to be licensed only in utterances that induce a particular change in the contextual status of a possible future course of events.

Keywords

Epistemic Modality Necessity Operator Possibility Modal Necessity Modal Optimal World 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Magdalena Schwager
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  1. 1.Sprachwissenschaftliches SeminarGeorg August Universität GöttingenGöttingenGermany

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