Parenthetical meaning

Parenthetical meaning / Todor Koev.

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 predict...

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Main Author: Koev, Todor (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 14.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Parenthetical constructions.
English language > Parenthetical constructions.
English language > Parenthetical constructions
Grammar, Comparative and general > Parenthetical constructions
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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