Modality and speech acts: troubled by German ruhig

Authors

  • Magdalena Schwager Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar, Georg August Universit¨ät G¨öttingen Author

Abstract

The paper aims to explain the distribution and effect of the German modal particle ruhig. It is argued to be licensed only in utterances that induce a particular change in the contextual settings with respect to the status of a particular possible future course of events.

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Published

2009-12-01

Issue

2009: Proceedings of the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium

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Conference Proceedings

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How to Cite

Schwager, M. (2009). Modality and speech acts: troubled by German ruhig. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 396-405. https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/article/view/22619