Open Accesscomparison of "fei" and "aber"
Author(s) -
Stefan Hinterwimmer,
Cornelia Ebert
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.60.2018.477
Subject(s) - presupposition , assertion , sentence , content (measure theory) , linguistics , modal , conjunction (astronomy) , adverb , contrast (vision) , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , physics , artificial intelligence , verb , mathematical analysis , chemistry , astronomy , polymer chemistry , programming language
This paper compares the modal particle fei (Schlieben-Lange, 1979; Thoma, 2009)with the modal particle/sentence adverb aber (not to be confused with the conjunction aber,‘but’). Intuitively, both items express some form of contrast and correction. We will show thatboth are special among discourse particles in the following sense: They make a contributionthat is interpreted at a level distinct from the level where at-issue content (Potts, 2005) isinterpreted, as is standard for modal particles (see Gutzmann, 2015 and the references therein).But more interestingly, they exclusively relate to propositions that have not entered theCommon Ground via being the at-issue content of an assertion made by the addressee.Keywords: discourse particles, assertions, at-issue content, presuppositions, conventionalimplicatures, conversational implicatures.