Browsing by Author "Wiltschko, Martina"

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  • Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function: a transdisciplinary case study
    Wiltschko, Martina; Denis, Derek; D’Arcy, Alexandra (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
    Despite recent advances (e.g. Cheshire 2007; Pichler 2010; Denis 2015), discourse-pragmatic variables continue to challenge variationist theory and methods. An overarching dilemma concerns multifunctionality, raising ...
  • Language is for thought and communication
    Wiltschko, Martina (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
    There is an ancient debate about whether language is an instrument for thought or for communication. I argue that the distinction is misleading, and that language is an integral part of both, human-specific thought, and ...
  • Modelling non-specific linguistic variation in cognitive disorders
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Wiltschko, Martina (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
    Clinical linguistic diversity extends far beyond ‘specific language’ disorders, such as acquired aphasia or specific language impairment (SLI), to a large range of mental disorders that are not language-specific. As ...
  • The Grammar of truth
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Wiltschko, Martina (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
    Much philosophical attention has been devoted to the truth predicates of natural language and their logic. However, lexical truth predicates are neither necessary nor sufficient for a truth-attribution to occur, which ...
  • Timing of belief as a key to cross-linguistic variation in common ground management
    Heim, Johannes M.; Wiltschko, Martina (De Gruyter, 2022)
    In this paper we introduce the notion of Timing of Belief (ToB) as a relevant factor of variation in common ground (CG) management in sentence-peripheral particles across different languages. CG management traces the ...