German 'noch genau wissen' : Uniform Semantics, Distinct Effects
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics |
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| web | https://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/42/paper3837.pdf |
| Keywords | memory reports; informationally rich propositions; experiential remembering; exactness of knowledge; propositional attitudes |
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| Description | We give a uniform compositional semantics for the German memory predicate 'noch wissen' ['still know'] that licenses both declarative 'dass-' ['that'-] and free relative 'wie-' ['how'-]complements, viz. by representing events as propositions. We show that this semantics yields the intuitive different interpretations of 'genau' [roughly: 'exactly'] in 'genau wissen, dass' (reliability) and 'genau wissen, wie' (vividness) under a single lexical entry for 'genau' (due to Wurm, 2020). |
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