Heim, Johannes M.; Wiltschko, Martina(Royal Danish Library, 2020)
Direct and indirect characterizations of the relation between clause type (syntactic form) and speech act (pragmatic function) are problematic because they map oversimplified forms onto decomposable functions. We propose ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
