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The Grammar of Expressivity (Paperback)
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The Grammar of Expressivity (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 72
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This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive
language, that is, utterances that express, rather than describe,
the emotions and attitudes of the speaker. While the expressive
function of natural language has been widely studied in recent
years, the role that grammar plays in the interpretation of
expressive items has been largely neglected in the semantic and
pragmatic literature. Daniel Gutzmann demonstrates that
expressivity has strong syntactic reflexes that interact with the
semantic and pragmatic interpretation of these utterances, and
argues that expressivity is in fact a syntactic feature on a par
with other established features such as tense and gender. Evidence
for this claim is drawn from three detailed case studies of
expressive adjectives, intensifiers, and vocatives; their puzzling
properties are accounted for through a minimalist approach to
syntactic features and agreement, which shows that expressivity can
partake in agreement operations, trigger movement, and be selected
for syntactically. The analysis not only supports the hypothesis of
expressive syntax, but also highlights the hidden role that grammar
may play in phenomena that are traditionally considered to be
solely semantic in nature.
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