Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers by Osamu Sawada
This volume examines the meaning of scalar modifiers - expressions such as more than, a bit, and much - from the standpoint of the semantics-pragmatics interface. It draws on data from Japanese and a range of other languages to explore the information expressed by these modifiers at both the semantic and the pragmatic level.-
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
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Definiteness in Balkan Romance
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Nominalization
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The Left Edge Ban and the Architecture of the Grammar
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Causation in Grammatical Structures
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Count and Mass Across Languages
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The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
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Encoding Events
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The Grammar of the Utterance
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Parts of a Whole
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Telicity, Change, and State
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Modals and Conditionals
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Concealed Questions
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Interfaces in Linguistics
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The Complementizer Phase
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Control and Restructuring
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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption
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Gender and Noun Classification
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Contrast and Representations in Syntax
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The Grammar of Expressivity
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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives
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Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
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Lexical Plurals
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The Syntax of Sentential Stress
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The Verbal Complex in Romance
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Diagnosing Syntax
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Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition
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External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
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Adjectives and Adverbs
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Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
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The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
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Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
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Continuations and Natural Language
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The Unaccusativity Puzzle
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Strategies of Quantification
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Sentence and Discourse
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The Syntax of Silence
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Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology
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Genericity
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Modality Across Syntactic Categories
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The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax
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Ways of Structure Building
Sawada's book is a solid contribution to the literatureResearchers working on (not-)at-issueness will find much to engage with. The book will be useful for further work on Japanese scalar modifiers. Importantly, this investigation of scalar modifiers provides a case study of the pitfalls that characterize attempts to test for not-at-issue content. * Brady Clark, Linguist List *
[a] compact, densely conceived but eminently readable treatise * Jacob L. Mey, Pragmatics and Society *
[a] compact, densely conceived but eminently readable treatise * Jacob L. Mey, Pragmatics and Society *
Osamu Sawada received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2010, and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at Mie University. His main research areas are semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, and he is particularly interested in scalar meanings, implicatures, presuppositions, the interaction between grammar and context, and language change. His work has appeared in journals including Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Natural Language Semantics, and Linguistics & Philosophy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198714224 |
| ISBN 10 | 019871422X |
| Title | Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers |
| Author | Osamu Sawada |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Theoretical Linguistics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2017-12-07 |
| Number of pages | 270 |
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