Stefan Hinterwimmer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stefan Hinterwimmer is involved.
Articles
2020 A comparison of abstract and concrete mass nouns in terms of their interaction with quantificational determiners Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, Moltmann, Friederike (ed.), pp. 61–82 | Chapter
In this paper, I compare concrete mass nouns such as water with abstract mass nouns derived from gradable adjectives like generosity in terms of their interaction with quantificational determiners. The main focus is on vague quantifiers such as a lot and little, on the one hand, and specificity… read more
2005 The Non-Uniformity of Quantificational Variability Effects: A Comparison of Singular Indefinites, Bare Plurals and Plural Definites Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction, Vogeleer, Svetlana (ed.), pp. 93–120 | Article
In this article, we discuss three different kinds of quantificational variability effects, namely quantificational variability readings in adverbially quantified sentences with (a) singular indefinites, (b) bare plurals, and (c) non kind-denoting plural definites. We investigate the three… read more
Perspectival mechanisms of modality: Semantic shifts of modal verb sollen (‘shall’) + inf. in German Evolutionary Linguistic Theory: Online-First Articles | Article
In recent years, it has been shown that perspectivization is not a pragmatic add-on but central to human cognition and linguistic conceptualization (see e.g. MacWhinney 2005, Verhagen 2023). One linguistic aspect where this is particularly obvious is modality as the semantic domain whose core… read more