Epistemic particles and performativity  

Oleh:

Kaufmann, Magdalena ; Kaufmann, Stefan

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18-20, 2012, page 208–225.
Topik: particles; performativity; ja; doch
Fulltext: 3471-7112-1-PB.pdf (186.06KB)

Isi artikel

The German discourse particles ja and doch both mark the information expressed by their host sentence as somehow given, obvious, or uncontroversial (McCready & Zimmermann 2011 call them ‘epistemic particles’). Two things are puzzling: (i) despite its ‘epistemic’ nature, doch can appear in imperatives and with performative modals; (ii) despite their similarity, ja is unacceptable in imperatives and forces a descriptive reading of modal verbs. We explain (i) by assuming that the performativity of modalized propositions depends on certain contextual constellations which may con?ict with constraints imposed by the particles. To account for (ii), we offer an analysis for ja and doch that explains the inviolable ban against ja (but not doch) from performative modal contexts in terms of defeasible inferences about the context.

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