Diese Untersuchung handelt von sein–dem, laut Grimm'schem Worterbuch," allgemeinsten
und farblosesten aller verbalbegriffe". Sie geht der Frage nach, ob die Kopula sein im …

In the view of Katz and Fodor (1963: 176) the scope of a language description covers the
knowledge of a fluent speaker “about the structure of his language that enables him to use …

Abstract Die Hauptthese dieser Dissertation ist, dass Nord-Sotho keinen obligatorischen
Gebrauch von grammatischen Mitteln zur Markierung von Fokus macht, weder in der Syntax …

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary
influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a …

The study investigates the way people use and make sense of negated adjectives. Past
research showed that by using a negated adjective, instead of an available antonym, one is …

Negated gradable adjectives often convey an interpretation that is stronger than their literal
meaning, which is referred to as 'negative strengthening.'For example, a sentence like 'John …

Previous chapters of this book have paid considerable attention to bidirectional Optimality
Theory, stressing the importance of bidirectionality in natural language interpretation. In …

This work investigates the interpretation of absolute gradable adjectives like clean in
comparison with their stronger scalemates (pristine) and corresponding antonyms (dirty and …

This paper analyses whether negation, as a modifier of degree, leads to different outcomes
based on the psychophysical structure of the polar dimension along which the shift …

In this work, we compare the interpretation of relative gradable adjectives like large with their
stronger scale-mates (gigantic) and corresponding antonyms (small and tiny) in their non …