German ‘noch genau wissen’: Uniform Semantics, Distinct Effects
Emil Rosina, Kristina Liefke
February 2025 

We give a uniform compositional semantics for the German memory predicate noch wissen [‘still know’] that licenses both declarative dass- [‘that’-] & free relative wie- [‘how’-]complements, viz. by representing events as propositions. We show that this semantics yields the intuitive different interpretations of genau [roughly: ‘exactly’] in 'genau wissen, dass' (reliability) and 'genau wissen, wie' (vividness) under a single lexical entry for 'genau' (due to Wurm, 2020). Wurm, V. (2020). Modification of german attitude verbs. MA-Thesis, University of Vienna.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008854 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	proceedings of WCCFL 2024, Berkeley (in press)
keywords:	memory, knowledge, propositional attitudes, non-manner 'how', semantics
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