In der neueren linguistischen Literatur wird Ironie oft im Zusammenhang mit Witz, Humor, Spott, dem Komischen usw. behandelt. So kommt STEMPEL in seiner Untersuchung »Ironie als-Sprechhandlung« zu folgendem Ergebnis: Ziel ...

As the introductory paper of a collection of articles, this contribution has a threefold purpose. First, it briefly outlines the major developments of research in grammaticalization during the last decades, the most promising ...

In present-day German, the present subjunctive (Konjunktiv I) and the modal verb sollen 'shall' are used to mark reported discourse. In this paper, we aim at clarifying the semantic relationship between these two markers. ...

The article discusses definitions of grammaticalization, pragmaticalization and (inter) subjectification in order to clarify the relations between these terms. While grammaticalization is defined as a functionally motivated, ...