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This paper aims to explain the distribution and effect of the German modal particle ruhig, which is argued to be licensed only in utterances that induce a particular change in the contextual status of a possible future course of events.
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Schwager, M. (2010). Modality and Speech Acts: Troubled by German Ruhig . In: Aloni, M., Bastiaanse, H., de Jager, T., Schulz, K. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_42
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