Dietmar Zaefferer

Dietmar Zaefferer (born May 2, 1947 ) is a German linguist . Until his retirement in 2014, Zaefferer was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was best known for his work on sentence mode and his contributions to speech act theory .

Works (selection)

Question expressions and questions in German. About their syntax, semantics and pragmatics. (Studies on Theoretical Linguistics 2) Munich: Fink 1984.
Speech act types in a Montague grammar. A theoretical model approach to the treatment of illocutionary roles, in: G. Grewendorf (ed.), Speech Act Theory and Semantics. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1979, 386-417.
On a Formal Treatment of Illocutionary Force Indicators, in: H. Parret et al. (eds.), Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: J. Benjamin 1981, 779-798.
Language as mind sharing device. Mental and linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life. - In: Andrea C. Schalley and Dietmar Zaefferer (eds.) 2007: Ontolinguistics. How ontological status shapes the linguistic coding of concepts. Berlin: de Gruyter, 189–222.