Chapter 6
Syntax and beyond
Explaining (non-)truth-conditional interpretations
Article outline
- 6.1Introduction
- 6.2Non-truth-conditionality despite syntactic integration?
- 6.3The pragmatics of syntactic parentheticality
- 6.4Sentence adverbials and information structure
- 6.4.1Introducing pointhood and at-issueness
- 6.4.2Evidential, hearsay and epistemic adverbials
- 6.4.2.1Ways of being non-at-issue
- 6.4.2.1.1Truth-conditional readings with an evidential
function
- 6.4.2.1.2Non-truth-conditional readings
- 6.4.2.1.3A comparison
- 6.4.2.2Ways of being at issue
- 6.4.3Attitudinal adverbials
- 6.4.4Summary and discussion
- 6.5Bringing it all together: Factors affecting (non-)truth-conditionality
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Notes