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IRREGULAR NEGATIVES, IMPLICATURES, AND IDIOMS IBD

SPRINGER
04 / 2018
9789402413762
Anglès

Sinopsi

The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or 'metalinguistic') negations. áA total of ten distinct negatives-several previously unclassified-are analyzed. áThe logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. áAll are partially non-compositional but completely conventional.The author argues that two of the irregular negative meanings are implicatures. áThe others are semantically rather than pragmatically ambiguous. áSince their ambiguity is neither lexical nor structural, direct irregular negatives satisfy the standard definition of idioms as syntactically complex expressions whose meaning is non-compositional. áUnlike stereotypical idioms, idiomatic negatives lack fixed syntactic forms and are highly compositional. áThe final chapter analyzes other 'free form' idioms, including irregular interrogatives and comparatives, self-restricted verb phrases, numerical verb phrases, and transparent propositional attitude and speech act reports.

PVP
66,07