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Linguistic meaning meets linguistic form
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This book steers a middle course between the logical and cognitive approaches to semantics. Patrick Duffley argues for a radical revision of the semantics/pragmatics interface, proposing that the dividing line be drawn between content that is linguistically encoded and content that is not encoded but still communicated.
Cover -- Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Chapter 1: Introductory remarks on the question of the autonomy of syntax -- Chapter 2: The truth-conditional approach to meaning -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Explanation of basic facts about meaning according to the truth-conditional approach -- 2.3 The truth-conditional approach to sentences -- 2.4 The truth-conditional approach to assembling meanings -- 2.5 Truth-conditional modeling of predicates as sets
2.6 Truth-conditional semantics' view of modifiers -- 2.7 Extensions and truth-conditions hit a wall -- 2.8 The interface between semantics and pragmatics -- Chapter 3: Sign-based semantics: meaning as linguistically-signified cognitive content -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The preposition for and the challenge of polysemy -- 3.3 The 'illogical' common-sense logic of natural language -- 3.3.1 Introduction -- 3.3.2 Any -- 3.3.3 Most -- 3.3.4 The conjunction or -- 3.3.5 Numerals -- 3.4 Aspectual verbs -- 3.4.1 Survey of previous analyses -- 3.4.2 Problems posed by this type of analysis
3.4.3 A language-specific approach to aspectual verbs in english -- 3.4.3.1 The parameters in play -- 3.4.3.2 Application of the parameters of function and semantic content of verb and complement to each aspectual verb -- Verbs denoting the beginning of an event -- Verbs referring to the middle of an event -- Verbs referring to the end of the event -- 3.4.4 Conclusions regarding aspectual verbs -- 3.5 Verbs of positive and negative recall -- 3.6 Causative verbs -- 3.7 Control and raising in adjective + to-infinitive constructions -- 3.7.1 Subject=subject constructions
3.7.2 Subject=object constructions -- 3.7.3 Conclusions on control and raising in adjective + to-infinitive constructions -- 3.8 WH- words and the infinitive in English -- 3.8.1 Distribution -- 3.8.2 WH- words + infinitive in independent clauses -- 3.8.2.1 How and Why -- 3.8.2.2 Other WH- words -- 3.8.2.3 WH- word + to-infinitive questions -- 3.8.2.4 WH- word + infinitive subordinate clauses: syntax explained by semantics -- 3.8.2.5 Accounting for the standard distribution -- 3.8.3 Conclusion on WH- words + infinitive -- 3.9 Dare and Need -- 3.9.1 Introduction
3.9.2 Need and dare as negative polarity items -- 3.9.3 Explanation of the morphosyntactically modal behavior of dare and need as NPIs -- 3.10 Full-verb inversion and existential-there constructions -- 3.10.1 Introduction -- 3.10.2 Full-verb inversion as a ground-before-figure construction -- 3.10.3 Two semiological characteristics of full-verb inversion structures not discussed by Chen -- 3.10.3.1 Lack of subject-verb agreement -- 3.10.3.2 Pronominal forms found in postverbal position -- 3.10.4 Parallels between full-verb inversion and existential-there constructions
Includes bibliographical references and index.