TY - JOUR AU - Zieleke, Regina PY - 2021/09/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The incausality of 'dennoch' and 'trotzdem': Generic Contrast JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 25 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.975 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/975 SP - 924-938 AB - <p>In this paper, I suggest an adaptation of the incausality implicature ascribed to ‘concessive’ contrast with discourse connectives such as German dennoch (‘however’) and trotzdem (‘nevertheless’). Based on both, theoretical considerations and empirical data, I will argue that this contrast involves a generalization: a generic operator GEN (cf. Krifka et al., 1995) in the conventional implicature generalizes over variables in the asserted conjuncts. The<br>introduction of the generic operator in the inference does not only provide insights on the close relation between properties of generic sentences and the concessive interpretation, it also allows for a consolidation of prevalent approaches to contrast with dennoch and trotzdem in the previous literature.</p> ER -