This analysis connects concessive meanings of doch in German, suggesting new insights into its varied uses.
German doch functions as a pragmatic particle, an adverb, and a contrastive conjunction. I propose an analysis connecting these through concessive meaning that reveals previously opaque connections between them, directly reflects intuitions on their functions, and accounts for differences in distribution.
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Lukas Rieser (2026) studied this question.
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