This book investigates the semantics and pragmatics of a
representative sample of parenthetical constructions. Todor Koev
argues that these constructions fall into two major classes: pure
and impure. Pure parentheticals comment on some part of the
descriptive content of the root sentence but are otherwise
relatively independent of it. Impure parentheticals modify
components of the illocutionary force and affect the felicity or
the truth of the root sentence. The book studies parentheticals
from three theoretical viewpoints: illocutionary effects, scopal
properties, and discourse status. It establishes and explicates the
notion of parenthetical meaning in a formally precise and
predictive dynamic-semantic model. As a result, parentheticality is
brought to bear on linguistic phenomena such as entailment and
presupposition, binding and anaphora, evidentiality and modality,
illocutionary force, and polarity.
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