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Todor Koev investigates the semantics and pragmatics of a representative sample of parenthetical constructions from three theoretical viewpoints. He argues that these constructions fall into two major classes, pure and impure, and explains parenthetical meaning through a formally precise and predictive dynamic model.
Cover -- Seriespage -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- General preface -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Parentheticality and the layers of meaning -- 1.1.1 Entailment, presupposition, implicature -- 1.1.2 Where does parenthetical meaning fit? -- 1.2 The empirical landscape -- 1.3 What makes a parenthetical expression ``parenthetical''? -- 1.3.1 Prosodic independence -- 1.3.2 Structural independence -- 1.3.3 Non-truth-conditionality -- 1.3.4 Intermediate summary -- 1.4 Main contributions of this book -- 1.4.1 Parentheticals as illocutionarily independent adjuncts
1.4.2 Pure vs. impure parentheticals -- 1.4.3 Six puzzles about parentheticals -- 1.5 Basic formalism -- 1.6 Chapter summary -- 2 Illocutionary effects -- 2.1 Illocutionary force -- 2.1.1 Distinguishing between clause type, illocutionary force,and speech act -- 2.1.2 Where does illocutionary force come from? -- 2.2 Parentheticality and illocutionary force -- 2.3 Pure parentheticals -- 2.3.1 No interpretational effects on the root clause -- 2.3.2 Modeling pure parentheticals -- 2.4 Impure parentheticals -- 2.4.1 Utterance modifiers -- 2.4.2 Biscuit conditional antecedents
2.4.3 Slifting parentheticals -- 2.5 Polarity effects -- 2.5.1 Upward Monotonicity -- 2.5.2 Solving the puzzle -- 2.5.3 A broader pattern -- 2.6 Chapter summary -- 3 Scopal properties -- 3.1 Scope and its kin -- 3.1.1 Operator scope -- 3.1.2 Projection -- 3.1.3 Perspective -- 3.2 The projection of pure parentheticals -- 3.3 Previous approaches to parenthetical projection -- 3.3.1 The wide scope approach -- 3.3.2 The two-dimensional approach -- 3.3.3 The presuppositional approach -- 3.3.4 The QUD approach -- 3.3.5 The direct update approach -- 3.4 Deriving parenthetical projection
3.5 Claimed exceptions to parenthetical projection -- 3.5.1 One-modifiers -- 3.5.2 Double perspective appositives -- 3.5.3 Shifted appositives -- 3.5.4 Narrow scope appositive relative clauses -- 3.6 Impure parentheticals -- 3.6.1 Non-embeddability and its exceptions -- 3.6.2 Toward explaining the pattern -- 3.6.3 Parenthetical fluidity -- 3.7 Why no binding? -- 3.8 Chapter summary -- 4 Discourse status -- 4.1 The intuition behind at-issueness -- 4.2 Theoretical construals -- 4.2.1 Q-at-issueness -- 4.2.2 P-at-issueness -- 4.2.3 C-at-issueness -- 4.3 Comparing the construals
4.3.1 Architectural and empirical differences -- 4.3.2 Choosing from the menu of options -- 4.4 The status of parenthetical meaning -- 4.4.1 Conventional vs. conversational at-issueness -- 4.4.2 Formal implementation -- 4.5 Looking beyond -- 4.5.1 At-issueness and projection -- 4.5.2 At-issueness and public commitments -- 4.5.3 At-issueness and focus structure -- 4.6 Implications for the theory of at-issueness -- 4.7 Chapter summary -- 5 Formal account -- 5.1 Dynamic semantics -- 5.1.1 Philosophical underpinnings -- 5.1.2 Empirical motivation -- 5.1.3 Update semantics
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 14