Sibilla Cantarini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sibilla Cantarini is involved.

Title

Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.

Articles

Bucciarelli, Paola, Ramona Bongelli, Andrzej Zuczkowski, Sibilla Cantarini and Christine Berthold 2014 Uncertainty markers in a corpus of German biomedical papers from Spektrum der Wissenschaft (1993-2012) Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 341–368 | Article

In this paper we present the analysis of uncertainty markers in a corpus of 60 articles randomly selected from the German popular science magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft since 1993 until 2012. In addition to identifying which and how many uncertainty lexical and morphosyntactic markers were… read more

Cantarini, Sibilla and Jacopo Torregrossa 2014 On polar questions, negation, and the syntactic encoding of epistemicity Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 199–215 | Article

This paper focuses mainly on negative polar questions. Following on from the relevant literature, we distinguish between two types of negative polar questions – those with inner negation and those with outer negation – showing that each is associated with specific morphosyntactic and semantic… read more