Paper 3837
German 'noch genau wissen': Uniform Semantics, Distinct Effects
Emil Eva Rosina and Kristina Liefke
330-337 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Emil Eva Rosina and Kristina Liefke
330-337 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Abstract
We give a uniform compositional semantics for the German memory predicate noch wissen ['still know'] that licenses both declarative dass- ['that'-] and free relative wie- ['how'-]complements, viz. by representing events as propositions. We show that this semantics yields the intuitive different interpretations of genau [roughly: 'exactly'] in genau wissen, dass (reliability) and genau wissen, wie (vividness) under a single lexical entry for genau (due to Wurm, 2020).
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Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Shweta Akolkar, Amber Galvano, Akil Ismael, Kang Franco Liu, and Line Mikkelsen
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edited by Shweta Akolkar, Amber Galvano, Akil Ismael, Kang Franco Liu, and Line Mikkelsen
Table of contents