Abstract

The German Konjunktiv II is known for its reportative and irrealis uses. This paper argues for a third, realis, use which is independent of the other two uses. Thus by uttering ‘Da wäre Saft im Kühlschrank there is.[realis subjunctive] juice in the fridge’ a speaker can signal that not only is she certain that there is juice in the fridge, but also that she is offering the juice to an interlocutor. I show that the meaning contribution of the realis subjunctive is strictly not-at-issue, and I develop a multi-dimensional formal semantics that captures both the distribution of the realis subjunctive, and its interaction with operators such as negation and tense. The conditions of use of the construction are modelled in terms of decision theory.

中文翻译：

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Realis虚拟语用德语

摘要

德国Konjunktiv II以其报道性和无rerealis用途而闻名。本文主张第三个用途realis，它独立于其他两个用途。因此，通过说出“ DawäreSaft imKühlschrank，冰箱里有果汁”，讲话者可以发出信号，不仅表明她确定冰箱里有果汁，而且还向对话者提供了果汁。 。我证明了realis虚拟语气的意义贡献完全不是问题，并且我开发了多维形式的语义，它捕获了realis虚拟语气的分布以及它与否定和时态等操作符的交互。根据决策理论对构造的使用条件进行建模。