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Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon

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By (author): Patrick J. Duffley

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax postulate underlying Landau (2013)s Control in Generative Grammar that form must be hived off from meaning and studied separately. Duffley shows control to depend on meaning in combination with inferences based on the nature of the events expressed by the matrix and complement, the matrix subject, the semantic relation between matrix and complement, and a number of other factors.
The conclusions call for a reconsideration of Ariel (2010)s distinction in Defining Pragmatics between semantics and pragmatics on the basis of cancelability: many control readings are not cancelable although they are pragmatically inferred. It is proposed that the line be drawn rather between what is linguistically expressed and what is not linguistically expressed but still communicated. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 605g
  • Publication Date: 30 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: Netherlands
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9789027256560

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