Doch is concessive after all!
German doch functions as a pragmatic particle, an adverb, and a contrastive conjunction. I propose an analysis connecting these through concessive meaning that reveals previously opaque connections between them, directly reflects intuitions on their functions, and accounts for differences in distribution.
Authors
- Lukas Rieser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2347-4869)
Institutions
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BieJournals
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11576/glow-1265
- Primary Topic
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00