Franz d’Avis

Biographic Data

ID9284493
NAMEFranz d’Avis
GIVEN NAMESFranz
FAMILY NAMEd’Avis
SIGNATURED’AVIS F
AFFILIATIONSJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Not all exclamatives behave the same

    Open AccessRobert Wilhelmy, Isabel Anders et al.ARTICLETheoretical Linguistics2025

    This article challenges the claim that exclamative sentences lack an illocutionary force of exclamation and are semantically equivalent to emotive assertions. Drawing on German data, we show that there are different classes of exclamatives that vary with respect to deniability and do not function well as answers to information-seeking questions but rather serve as replies in discourse. We argue that all the different classes need to be taken into…

  • Different Languages - Different Sentence Types? On Exclamative Sentences

    Open AccessFranz D''Avi, Franz D'Avi et al.ARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2016Cited by: 3References: 29

    It is not equally easy for all languages to establish an exclamative sentence type. It seems the easiest for those languages that feature a morphological marking for an exclamative sentence type like Turkish or Vietnamese. English on the other hand is a language that does not mark exclamative clauses with an easily identifiable marker but uses certain preferred constructions, which allow us to separate a class of 'exclamative sentences' from othe…

  • Du Idiot! Din idiot! Pseudo-vocative constructions and insults in German (and Swedish)

    Franz d’Avis, Jörg MeibauerCHAPTER2013