Whole-for-part metonymy, classification, and groundingSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 38 - Trang 1-29 - 2015
Alexandra Arapinis
Since the early 1980s, metonymy has progressively gained central stage in linguistic investigations. The advent of cognitive linguistics marked a new turn in the study of this trope conceived, not as a deviation from semantic conventions (contra classical rhetorical theories), but as a phenomenon rooted in non-language-specific mechanisms of conceptualization of the world. Acknowledging that meton...... hiện toàn bộ
Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferencesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 46 - Trang 1161-1217 - 2023
Yasutada Sudo
This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents. Given the general consensus that a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires discourse referents separately from the truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected that the anaphoric information that discourse referents carry play a role in the computation of scalar...... hiện toàn bộ
On identification and transworld identity in natural language: the case of -ever free relativesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 34 - Trang 169-199 - 2011
Daphna Heller, Lynsey Wolter
An -ever free relative is felicitous only when the speaker doesn’t know, or doesn’t care about, the identity of the entity denoted. In this paper we investigate what it means to identify an entity by examining the non-identification condition on -ever free relatives. Following Dayal (In A. Lawson (Ed.), Proceedings of SALT VII, 1997), we analyze -ever free relatives as definites with a modal dimen...... hiện toàn bộ
Choice Functions and Scope of Existential Polarity Wh-Phrases in Mandarin ChineseSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 27 - Trang 451-491 - 2004
Jo-Wang Lin
A recent popular analysis of English indefinites isthat they involve a choice function mechanism in their semantic interpretation. However,there are diversified views regarding how intermediate scope readings should be dealt withand which level(s) existential closure should apply to. This paper attempts to make acontribution to this debate by examining existential polarity wh-phrases in Chinese. I...... hiện toàn bộ