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This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language. Based on case studies of expressive adjectives, intensifiers, and vocatives, it offers a new analysis of expressivity that bridges the gap between semantic and syntactic accounts, and shows that expressivity is a syntactic feature and not a purely semantic phenomenon.
Cover; The Grammar of Expressivity; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations, Symbols, and Typographic Conventions; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Descriptive and expressive language; 1.2 From semantics to syntax; 1.3 Overview of the chapters; 1.4 How to approach this book; 2: The expressive function of language; 2.1 Some historical background; 2.2 Expressive phenomena; 2.2.1 Expressive adjectives; 2.2.2 Expressive intensifiers; 2.2.3 Expressive vocatives; 2.2.4 Further cases; 2.2.4.1 Interjections; 2.2.4.2 Particles
2.2.4.3 Pronouns2.3 Expressivity in multidimensional semantics; 2.4 Summary; 3: Syntax, features, and agreement; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Some basic ingredients of a minimalist syntax; 3.3 Syntactic features; 3.4 Varieties of Agree; 3.4.1 C-Agree; 3.4.2 S-Agree; 3.4.3 ↑Agree; 3.5 Phases; 3.6 Syntax meets speech acts; 3.7 Summary; 4: Expressive adjectives; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The grammar of EAs; 4.2.1 Standard syntax; 4.2.2 Special syntax; 4.2.3 Semantics and two kinds of EAs; 4.2.4 Syntax-semantic mismatches; 4.3 Excursus: comparison to other non-local adjectives
4.3.1 The occasional-construction4.3.2 Other non-local adjectives; 4.3.3 Syntactic and semantic particularities of non-local adjectives; 4.3.4 Comparing non-local adjectives and EAs; 4.4 Just pragmatics?; 4.4.1 An anti-syntactic approach; 4.4.2 Culprit hypothesis; 4.4.3 Experimental data; 4.5 The role of syntax; 4.5.1 Syntactic constraints; 4.5.2 Experimental evidence for syntactic barriers; 4.5.3 No argument lowering; 4.6 A syntactic approach to the interpretation of EAs; 4.6.1 An agreement-based solution; 4.6.2 EAs can only look up; 4.6.3 Syntactic blocking; 4.6.4 Multiple agreement
4.7 Semantic interpretation4.7.1 The interpretation of pure EAs; 4.7.2 The interpretation of mixed EAs; 4.8 Summary; 5: Expressive intensifiers; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Expressive intensifiers and external intensifying constructions; 5.2.1 Expressive intensifiers in internal adjectival position; 5.2.1.1 The semantics of internal EIs; 5.2.2 Expressive intensifiers in internal adnominal position; 5.2.3 Adjectival external intensifying constructions; 5.2.3.1 EDCs are DPs; 5.2.3.2 EDCs are degree expression (not adjectives); 5.2.3.3 The "definite" article; 5.2.3.4 Definiteness mismatches
5.2.4 Nominal external intensifying constructions5.3 Toward a syntactic analysis of EDCs; 5.3.1 The syntactic structure of EDCs; 5.3.2 EDCs are derived by movement; 5.3.3 External EIs undergo complex quantifier formation with the determiner; 5.3.4 Expressivity is a feature of D; 5.3.5 EIs move to realize expressivity in D; 5.3.6 Incorporation with D is ersatz inflection; 5.3.7 Intervention effects; 5.4 Conclusion and outlook; 5.5 Appendix; 6: Expressive vocatives; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Standard vocatives; 6.2.1 Building standard vocatives; 6.2.2 Vocative functions
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019
Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 72