Exhaustivity

The dissertation proposes an answer to the question of how to model exhaustive inferences and what the meaning of the linguistic material that triggers these inferences is. In particular, it deals with the semantics of exclusive particles, clefts, and progressive aspect in Ga, an under-researched language spoken in Ghana. Based on new data coming from the author’s original fieldwork in Accra, the thesis points to a previously unattested variation in the semantics of exclusives in a cross-linguistic perspective, analyzes the connections between exhaustive interpretation triggered by clefts and the aspectual interpretation of the sentence, and identifies a cross-categorial definite determiner. By that it sheds new light on several exhaustivity-related phenomena in both the nominal and the verbal domain and shows that both domains are closely connected.

Level thesis:degree_level

thesis.doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher

Universität Potsdam

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Renans, Agata Maria

Contributors dc:contributor

• Zimmermann, Malte
• Tonhauser, Judith

• formal semantics
• fieldwork
• exclusive particles
• clefts
• progressive aspect
• defintie determiner
• formale Semantik
• Feldforschung
• exklusive Partikel
• Spaltssatz
• progressiver Aspekt
• Ga (Kwa) Sprache
• Ga (Kwa) language

Statement dc:rights

• CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International

Repository record source_url

https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/8950

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:kobv.de-opus4-uni-potsdam:8950