Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or metalinguistic) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives-several previously unclassified-are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially non-compositional but completely conventional.The author argues that two of the irregular negative meanings are implicatures. The others are semantically rather than pragmatically ambiguous. Since their ambiguity is neither lexical nor structural, direct irregular negatives satisfy the standard definition of idioms as syntactically complex expressions…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-94-017-7546-5
- EAN: 9789401775465
- Produktnummer: 19837158
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 317 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'108 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: 7 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 13 schwarz-weiße Tabellen, Bibliographie
- Reihenbandnummer: 6
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