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Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 6
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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 whose meaning is
non-compositional. Unlike stereotypical idioms, idiomatic negatives
lack fixed syntactic forms and are highly compositional. The final
chapter analyzes other "free form" idioms, including irregular
interrogatives and comparatives, self-restricted verb phrases,
numerical verb phrases, and transparent propositional attitude and
speech act reports.
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