TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kasimir, Elke
T1  - On "nicht...sondern..." (contrastive "not...but...")
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 5
N2  - This article presents an analysis of German nicht...sondern... (contrastive not...but...) which departs from the commonly held view that this construction should be explained by appeal to its alleged corrective function. It will be demonstrated that in nicht A sondern B (not A but B), A and B just behave like stand-alone unmarked answers to a common question Q, and that this property of sondern is presuppositional in character. It is shown that from this general observation many interesting properties of nicht...sondern... follow, among them distributional differences between German "sondern" and German "aber" (contrastive but, concessive but), intonational requirements and exhaustivity effect sondern presupposition is furthermore argued to be the result of the conventionalization of conversational implicatures.
KW  - negation
KW  - contrast
KW  - correction
KW  - presupposition
KW  - metalinguistic negation
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10055
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112475
UR  - http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1953/
SN  - 978-3-939469-41-4
SP  - 107
EP  - 151
PB  - Univ.-Verl.
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -