TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Onea, Edgar
A1  - Volodina, Anna
T1  - Between Specification and Explanation. About a German Discourse Particle
JF  - International Review of Pragmatics
N2  - This paper provides a unified semantic and discourse pragmatic analysis of the German particle nämlich, traditionally described as having a specificational and an explanative reading. Our claim is that nämlich is a discourse marker which signals that the expression it is attached to is a short (elliptic) answer to a salient implicit question about the previous utterance. We show how both the explanative and the specificational reading can be derived from this more general semantic contribution. In addition we discuss some cross linguistic consequences of our analysis.
KW  - discourse particles
KW  - discourse structure
KW  - context markers
KW  - questions
KW  - specification
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Diskursmarker
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
Y1  - 2011
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-53059
SN  - 1877-3109
SS  - 1877-3109
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1163/187731011X561036
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1163/187731011X561036
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SP  - 3
EP  - 32
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
ER  -