Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance

by Irina T Pandarova

This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows for the first time that all four adverbial classes can have both truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional (parenthetical) readings. A novel account is presented according to which (non-)truth-conditional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027213739
• ISBN13: 9789027213730
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 254 Pages