dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-05T16:34:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-16T22:45:56Z | |
dc.date.created | 2022-09-19T08:25:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Grosz, Patrick Georg . Scalarity as a meaning atom in wohl-type particles. Particles in German, English, and Beyond. 2022, 243-268 John Benjamins Publishing Company | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/98516 | |
dc.description.abstract | German wohl ‘well’, Norwegian vel ‘well’ and French bien ‘well’ are all known to have a modal particle reading that roughly amounts to ‘surely, probably, I guess’ (see Zimmermann 2008; Fretheim 1991; Detges & Waltereit 2009). This paper addresses the question of how such a reading could have arisen from the source meaning of these elements (i.e. ‘well’). I propose an analysis of wohl-type (i.e. ‘well’-type) modal particles as scalar operators, which is based on the observation that each of them appears to have diachronically gone through an intermediate stage in which it was clearly a scalar modifier (namely wohl ‘approximately’, vel ‘approximately, more than’, and bien ‘very’). The core idea of my contribution is that the modal particle variant is still a scalar operator in nature, but has emerged through a shift in the type of scale that the particle operates on (in line with Beltrama’s 2015 approach to English totally). Scalarity thus emerges as a common meaning atom (or meaning molecule), in the spirit of von Fintel & Matthewson (2008: 154,172), which serves as a building block in the semantic makeup of wohl-type particles. | |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Studies in Language Companion Series | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Studies in Language Companion Series | |
dc.title | Scalarity as a meaning atom in wohl-type particles | |
dc.title.alternative | ENEngelskEnglishScalarity as a meaning atom in wohl-type particles | |
dc.type | Chapter | |
dc.creator.author | Grosz, Patrick Georg | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,14,35,20 | |
cristin.unitname | Lingvistikk | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 2052886 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.btitle=Particles in German, English, and Beyond&rft.spage=243&rft.date=2022 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 243 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 268 | |
dc.identifier.pagecount | 382 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.224.09gro | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.224.09gro | |
dc.type.document | Bokkapittel | |
dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
dc.source.isbn | 9789027211330 | |
dc.type.version | AcceptedVersion | |
cristin.btitle | Particles in German, English, and Beyond | |