Strategies of additivity: German additive noch compared to auch

• Carla Umbach ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Stuttgart

     University of Stuttgart

     Stadtkreis Stuttgart, Alemania

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Vol. 122, Nº 15, 2012, págs. 1843-1863
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The German particle noch (‘still’) has an additive reading which differs significantly in meaning and use from the standard German additive particle 'auch' ('also'/‘too’). In the paper, a semantic and pragmatic analysis will be presented focusing on three core characteristics distinguishing additive noch from auch: (i) alignment with discourse time, (ii) association with deaccented focus, and (iii) continuation of the question-under-discussion. The analysis will be based on the notion of focus lternatives and make use of a question-based discourse model