Constructions, pragmatics and modality

Constructions, pragmatics and modality

This paper rejects the commonplace view that the semantics of certain modal deverbal adjectives (MDAs), which have traditionally been assumed to be non-compositional, require complex lexical or syntactic encoding (cf. e.g. Riehemann 1994 and 1998, Booij 2007 and 2010a). Instead, it shows that produc...

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Main Author: Antonio Fortin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2013-05-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
Subjects:
modal deverbal adjectives
compositionality
conversational implicatures
morphology-semantics interface
Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL_2013_1_Fortin.pdf
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Summary:This paper rejects the commonplace view that the semantics of certain modal deverbal adjectives (MDAs), which have traditionally been assumed to be non-compositional, require complex lexical or syntactic encoding (cf. e.g. Riehemann 1994 and 1998, Booij 2007 and 2010a). Instead, it shows that productive MDA formation is semantically compositional, and that the prima facie idiosyncratic meanings are, in fact, conversational implicatures.
ISSN:2069-9239
2069-9239

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