[PDF] Top 20 On Issue of Semantics and Pragmatics of Reflexive Constructions

... the reflexive makes an additional sense: the indication on necessity for the subject to have an intention of making an action, the subject doesn’t have any from the speaker’s point of ... See full document

... In Chapter 1 we defined the semantic content of an expression as the meaning that is associated with the words themselves, independent of context. We de- fined pragmatic meaning as the meaning which arises from the ... See full document

... the semantics ’, that is, it requires a prior semantico-logical analysis on which negation is ...of semantics and pragmatics and the relation between ...take issue with his assumption that the ... See full document

... (Stanley 2015: 154-155) Stanley’s point is that the use of slurs is too obviously a violation of human dignity to be actually able to do any propaganda: The real danger comes from less explicit tools of dehumanization. ... See full document

... 76 This question, which we called the problem of polysemy motivation in Chapter 1, will be the topic of this chapter. What makes our languages exhibit polysemy? What is the motivation for it? Is it fundamentally ... See full document

... What is important is that ϕ should do nothing more than this: it should not provide information that is not related to the given issue, and it should not raise issues that are not related to the given ... See full document

... she’s miraculous . . . ’ Without a sense of exactly what formal 35 and contextual features make this example different than the elicited data in the present paper, we can offer only tentative thoughts on this example. ... See full document

... outstanding issue is the composition- ality of the interpretations of these ...paper, semantics of each interrogative is stip- ulated at the level of the entire ... See full document

... of reflexive pronouns as well as to indicate specific structural and semantic features that they reveal in constructions they make part ...that constructions with reflexive pronouns ... See full document

... Ideally, theories of hybrid quotation should be considered within the broader framework of general theories of quotation, as the most influential accounts of hybridity are indeed components of wider theories. For reasons ... See full document

... A proponent of the past-as-past approach can in principle react in two ways to these observations. He may defend the past-as-past hypothesis for all occurrences of the simple past with an apparently non-temporal meaning. ... See full document

... Unlike both Nathan 2006 and Barker 2016, however, we do not predict that these types of modification always license a CQ reading: constructions like Ann guessed the apple which is red/the reddest apple are clearly ... See full document

... Examples are glossed as follows: The Kiowa examples are written in the Kiowa orthography developed by Parker McKenzie (??), and in IPA. On IPA glosses, low tone is left unmarked. The following abbreviations will be used: ... See full document

... The current sentence is attached to the preceding SDRS with a discourse relation; the process by which this is done takes the reader's background knowledge into accoun[r] ... See full document

... Every student studies semantics ̸⇒ Every student studies formal semantics. Every student studies formal semantics ⇒ Every student studies semantics[r] ... See full document

... When it comes to denotational markedness, matters are complicated because the domain of atoms is, of course, a subset of the domain of atoms and sums. Note, however, that in our account, singular nominals do not have a ... See full document

... cognitive semantics, the “meaning is based on conventionalized conceptual structures”, and thus “semantic structure reflects the mental categories which people have formed from their experience of growing up and ... See full document

... This principle gives rise to the following prediction: children who have already successfully acquired mental terms will hesitate to assign epistemic interpretations to modal verbs (whic[r] ... See full document

... 3 A number of refinements and explanations I have made three simplifying assumptions in developing the semantics in Section 2 . In order to refine the semantics, I will identify these assumptions and say ... See full document

... We see the affiliation of S&P with the LSA as a mutually beneficial rela- tionship. The eLanguage team will coordinate the web hosting of the journal, including the infrastructure of the OJS open source journal ... See full document