Particles at the semantics-pragmatics interface [electronic resource] / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen.
Material type: TextSeries: Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interfacePublication details: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2007.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:- 9780080556819:
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- 0080556817 (electronic bk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Cover; Particles at the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Particles at the Lexical-Semantics / Pragmatics Interface: A Conceptual Framework; Chapter 3 A Framework for Describing the Diachronic Evolution of Phasal Adverbs; Chapter 4 General Properties of Phasal Adverbs Across Languages; Chapter 5 Data and Methodology; Chapter 6 Content-Level Uses of the French Phasal Adverbs; Chapter 7 Context-Level Uses of the French Phasal Adverbs; Chapter 8 Conclusion; References; Index.
The central aim of this study is to elucidate the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony. The author proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality, and discusses the status of various types of meaning with respect to this definition. A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized. The nature, paths, and mechanisms of diachronic sense changes of the relevant type, as w
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