Hans-Christian Schmitz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hans-Christian Schmitz plays a role.
Article
2011 Blocking modal enrichment (tatsächlich) Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 177–197 | Article
I show that under the right circumstances recipients can carry out operations of modal enrichment. Such enrichment operations can be blocked. One means of blocking modal enrichment in German is using the adverb tatsächlich (‘in fact’). I define tatsächlich as an enrichment blocker and support this… read more