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Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
Wayne A. Davis
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hardcover. Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology. Num Pages: 335 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 13 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
335
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
Number of Pages
317
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401775441
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V9789401775441
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