Publications

Publication details [#5728]

Kratzer, Angelika. 1981. The notional category of modality. In Eikmeyer, Hans-Jürgen and Hannes Rieser, eds. Words, worlds, and contexts: New approaches in word semantics. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 38–74.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexicon | modality | semantic variability

Language as a subject

German

Annotation

A semantic analysis of modality in certain expressions in German. Given the enormous variety of interpretations of one expression in different utterances, what is the logical nature of these interpretations, what is their variety due to, and how is the variety restricted by the vocabulary of German itself?