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The Semantics of Evaluativity (Hardcover)
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The Semantics of Evaluativity (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 54
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This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and
its consequences across constructions. Evaluativity has
traditionally been associated exclusively with the positive
construction, a term for sentences with a gradable adjective but
with no overt degree morphology. John is tall is evaluative because
it entails that John is tall relative to a contextually valued
standard. John is taller than Sue and John is as tall as Sue are
not evaluative because both could be used even if John and Sue were
short. Previous accounts of evaluativity have assumed that it is
not part of the inherent meaning of adjectives, but is contributed
by a null morpheme. Jessica Rett argues against this analysis,
proposing that no null morpheme is required. Instead, evaluativity
is explained on the basis of assumptions that speakers and hearers
make about the relationship between the simplicity of a situation
and the simplicity of the language used to describe that situation;
the analysis is couched in recent approaches to Gricean
conversational implicature.
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