Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 6
Release date:	April 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Wayne A. Davis
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	317
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-9401775441
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Promotions
LSN:	9401775443
Barcode:	9789401775441

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