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- The first accurate description of the essential features of irregular negations which also identifies new members of the class
- Offers a new, idiomatic theoretical foundation for ‘metalinguistic’ irregular negations
- Deploys Davis’s ‘expression theory’ of meaning (2003, 2005) to account for a range of linguistic phenomena
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 6)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Georgetown University, Washington, USA
Wayne A. Davis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
Authors: Wayne A. Davis
Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7546-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7544-1Published: 26 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1376-2Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7546-5Published: 15 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2214-3807
Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 317
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language