Cancelling and projecting in exclamatives: levels of meaning under experimental study Background ... more Cancelling and projecting in exclamatives: levels of meaning under experimental study Background Since the initial studies in the seventies by [1] the exact categorization of the meanings conveyed by exclamatives has been a matter of debate, particularly concerning two main aspects: factivity and high degree. Hence, an exclamative sentence like (1) is commonly assumed to involve the ascription of a property (2) and a high degree meaning (3). (1) How tall Mary is! (2) Mary is tall. (3) Mary is tall beyond expectation. As for the ascription of a property in (2), [2] argued that it was a presupposition. However, such a position became challenged in the late 2000’s by [3, 4] (but see [5], for a reassessment of Grimshaw’s position [2]). As for the high degree meaning (3), while [6, 7] argue that it is a presupposition following from the presence of a higher order illocutionary operator, [8] analyze it as a conventional implicature (hence, pragmatic in nature) deriving from the semantic o...
In this paper it is argued that dislocates are interpreted in their surface position. Evidence fr... more In this paper it is argued that dislocates are interpreted in their surface position. Evidence from binding and scope phenomena is provided to support such strong hypothesis. Moreover, it is shown that its interaction with the Split-Topic Hypothesis, which argues for a partition of the focus-topic structure of the sentence, can explain some otherwise surprising asymmetries. Finally, it is argued for an integration of discourse and modality aspects in the computation of binding and scope facts.
Cancelling and projecting in exclamatives: levels of meaning under experimental study Background ... more Cancelling and projecting in exclamatives: levels of meaning under experimental study Background Since the initial studies in the seventies by [1] the exact categorization of the meanings conveyed by exclamatives has been a matter of debate, particularly concerning two main aspects: factivity and high degree. Hence, an exclamative sentence like (1) is commonly assumed to involve the ascription of a property (2) and a high degree meaning (3). (1) How tall Mary is! (2) Mary is tall. (3) Mary is tall beyond expectation. As for the ascription of a property in (2), [2] argued that it was a presupposition. However, such a position became challenged in the late 2000’s by [3, 4] (but see [5], for a reassessment of Grimshaw’s position [2]). As for the high degree meaning (3), while [6, 7] argue that it is a presupposition following from the presence of a higher order illocutionary operator, [8] analyze it as a conventional implicature (hence, pragmatic in nature) deriving from the semantic o...
In this paper it is argued that dislocates are interpreted in their surface position. Evidence fr... more In this paper it is argued that dislocates are interpreted in their surface position. Evidence from binding and scope phenomena is provided to support such strong hypothesis. Moreover, it is shown that its interaction with the Split-Topic Hypothesis, which argues for a partition of the focus-topic structure of the sentence, can explain some otherwise surprising asymmetries. Finally, it is argued for an integration of discourse and modality aspects in the computation of binding and scope facts.
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