German 'noch genau wissen': Uniform Semantics, Distinct Effects

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Authors	ROSINA Emil Eva LIEFKE Kristina
Year of publication	2025
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	German 'noch genau wissen': Uniform Semantics, Distinct Effects
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Arts
Citation
web	https://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/42/paper3837.pdf
Keywords	memory reports; informationally rich propositions; experiential remembering; exactness of knowledge; propositional attitudes
Attached files	Rosina_Liefke_2025_WCCFL.pdf
Description	We give a uniform compositional semantics for the German memory predicate 'noch wissen' ['still know'] that licenses both declarative 'dass-' ['that'-] and free relative 'wie-' ['how'-]complements, viz. by representing events as propositions. We show that this semantics yields the intuitive different interpretations of 'genau' [roughly: 'exactly'] in 'genau wissen, dass' (reliability) and 'genau wissen, wie' (vividness) under a single lexical entry for 'genau' (due to Wurm, 2020).
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