TY  - CHAP
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
T1  - Discourse particles in the left periphery
T2  - Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop : ZAS Berlin, November 2003 / Ed.: Benjamin Shaer ... , Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2004; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 35
N2  - This article analyses the German discourse particle wohl 'I suppose', 'presumably' as a syntactic and semantic modifier of the sentence types declarative and interrogative. It is shown that wohl does not contribute to the propositional, i.e. descriptive content of an utterance. Nor does it trigger an implicature. The proposed analysis captures the semantic behaviour of wohl by assuming that it moves to SpecForceP at LF, from where it can modify the sentence type operators in Force0 in compositional fashion. Semantically, a modification with wohl results in a weaker commitment to the proposition expressed in declaratives and in a request for a weaker commitment concerning the questioned proposition in interrogatives. Cross-linguistic evidence for a left-peripheral position of wohl (at LF) comes from languages in which the counterpart of wohl occurs in the clausal periphery overtly. Overall, the analysis sheds more light on the semantic properties of the left periphery, in particular of the functional projection ForceP.
KW  - Grammatische Kategorie
KW  - Pragmatik
KW  - Lexikologie
KW  - Modalität
KW  - Satztyp
KW  - Skopus
KW  - Deutsch
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30913
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309130
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/193.html?&L=0%20order%20by%201000%20--
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 35
SP  - 543
EP  - 566
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -