
This book investigates the semantics and pragmatics of a representative sample of parenthetical constructions. Todor Koev argues that these constructions fall into two major classes: pure and impure. Pure parentheticals comment on some part of the descriptive content of the root sentence but are otherwise relatively independent of it. Impure parentheticals modify components of the illocutionary force and affect the felicity or the truth of the root sentence. The book studies parentheticals from three theoretical viewpoints: illocutionary effects, scopal properties, and discourse status. It establishes and explicates the notion of parenthetical meaning in a formally precise and predictive dynamic-semantic model. As a result, parentheticality is brought to bear on linguistic phenomena such as entailment and presupposition, binding and anaphora, evidentiality and modality, illocutionary force, and polarity.
This book investigates the semantics and pragmatics of a representative sample of parenthetical constructions to determine how they contribute to the meaning of a sentence. Todor Koev, a researcher in linguistics, utilizes a formal dynamic-semantic model to categorize parentheticals into pure and impure classes. By analyzing their illocutionary effects, scopal properties, and discourse status, the author provides a predictive framework for understanding how these linguistic elements interact with root sentences.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts in the field of semantics recognize this work as a rigorous contribution to the study of parenthetical meaning. Readers frequently note the high level of technical density and the specialized nature of the formal semantic models presented.
Page Count:
512
Publication Date:
2022-01-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
ISBN-10:
0192640844
ISBN-13:
9780192640840
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