Formal Approaches to Particle Meaning

McCready, Eric

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“…As Zimmermann (2011) notes, discourse particles convey "information concerning the epistemic states of the speaker, or her interlocutors, or both, with respect to the descriptive or propositional, content of an utterance" (see also McCready 2012). The analysis that we present for parenthetical I'm telling you (henceforth PITY) fits snugly into this characterization.…”

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Parenthetical "I'm telling you" as a marker of private evidence

Reese

Soh

2018

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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We present an analysis of parenthetical uses of the English expression I'm telling you as a discourse particle, i.e., an expression that conveys information about the epistemic states of discourse participants with respect to the propositional content of an utterance (Zimmermann 2011). The analysis connects I’m telling you to other discourse particles that mark the speaker’s assumptions about whether the (evidence for the) asserted proposition is shared knowledge between the speaker and addressee and whether or not the (evidence for the) proposition is ``verifiable on the spot'', e.g. German ja (Kratzer 1999, 2004), Mandarin de (Soh 2018).

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Parenthetical "I'm telling you" as a marker of private evidence

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Soh

2018

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Phases and argument ellipsis in Japanese

Sakamoto

2016

J East Asian Linguist

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Denn as a highlighting-sensitive particle

Theiler

2020

Linguist and Philos

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This paper develops an account of the German discourse particle denn that captures the meaning contribution of this particle in polar questions, wh-questions, and certain conditional antecedents in a unified way. It is shown that the behavior of denn exhibits an asymmetry between polar and wh-interrogatives, which can be captured by treating the particle as sensitive to the property highlighted by its containing clause, in the sense of Roelofsen and Farkas (Language 91(2):359–414, 2015). In addition, the paper argues that highlighting-sensitivity should be incorporated in the account of another discourse particle, German überhaupt, and discusses how the proposed account of discourse particle denn may be extended to also cover the use of denn as a causal conjunction.

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Formal Approaches to Particle Meaning

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

Parenthetical "I'm telling you" as a marker of private evidence

Parenthetical "I'm telling you" as a marker of private evidence

Phases and argument ellipsis in Japanese

Denn as a highlighting-sensitive particle

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