Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning
Daniel Gutzmann, "Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning "
English | ISBN: 9004252177 | 2013 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 9004252177 | 2013 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning offers empirical and theoretical studies of expressions whose meaning falls outside the standard realm of truth-conditional semantics. Aspects of meaning that are better captured by their use-conditions instead came into the spotlight of formal semantics recently, mainly due to the raised interest in expressions like interjections or swear words. Going beyond such expressives, the contributions provide detailed semantic analyses of a broad range of use-conditional items, including particles, non-inflectional constructions, personal datives and interpretational effects of focus. This volume thereby proves that the empirical domain of use-conditional meaning is as diverse as the truth-conditional one, equally amenable to systematic semantic treatments.
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