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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spelling doaj-0bc7fc4b64c3448ea5f319fc345c9b172020-11-24T22:08:46ZengEditura Universitatii din BucurestiBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 2069-92392069-92392013-05-01XV16978Constructions, pragmatics and modalityAntonio FortinThis 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.http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL_2013_1_Fortin.pdfmodal deverbal adjectivescompositionalityconversational implicaturesmorphology-semantics interface
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Constructions, pragmatics and modality
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
modal deverbal adjectives
compositionality
conversational implicatures
morphology-semantics interface
author_facet Antonio Fortin
author_sort Antonio Fortin
title Constructions, pragmatics and modality
title_short Constructions, pragmatics and modality
title_full Constructions, pragmatics and modality
title_fullStr Constructions, pragmatics and modality
title_full_unstemmed Constructions, pragmatics and modality
title_sort constructions, pragmatics and modality
publisher Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
series Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
issn 2069-9239
2069-9239
publishDate 2013-05-01
description 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.
topic modal deverbal adjectives
compositionality
conversational implicatures
morphology-semantics interface
url http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL_2013_1_Fortin.pdf
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