ISBN:
9789400722699
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 269p. 15 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 88
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. u.d.T. Kaufmann, Magdalena Interpreting imperatives
Keywords:
Semantics
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Linguistics
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Linguistics
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Linguistics Philosophy
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Semantics
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Grammar, Comparative and general
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Imperative
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Semantics
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Aufforderungssatz
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Satzsemantik
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Aufforderungssatz
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Satzsemantik
Abstract:
Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or the concept of information growth-neither of which are easily applied to imperatives. This book puts forward a fresh perspective. It analyzes imperatives in terms of modalized propositions, and identifies an additional, presuppositional, meaning component that makes an assertive interpretation inappropriate. The author shows how these two elemen
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; 1 Setting the Scene; 1.1 Individuating Imperatives; 1.1.1 Trying a Purely Functional Individuation; 1.1.2 Trying a Purely Formal Individuation; 1.1.3 Imperatives as Clause Types Individuatedby a Form-Function Pair; 1.2 Clause Types and Actual Utterances; 1.3 Semantics or Pragmatics?---Deciding on the Boundaries; 1.4 The Framework; 2 How to Handle Imperatives in Semantics; 2.1 Three Parameters of Classification; 2.1.1 Split and Uniform Representationalism; 2.1.2 Assigning Meaning to Imperatives: Static or Dynamic; 2.1.3 Possible Denotata for Imperatives
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2.2 A Few Recent Approaches to Imperatives2.2.1 Speech Acts as Input to Semantic Computation; 2.2.2 Performative Modals and Non-epistemic Context Change Potentials; 2.2.3 (Ex-)Changing the World; 2.2.4 Imperatives as Updating To-Do Lists; 2.3 Modalized Propositions: Idea and Motivation; 2.3.1 Performative and Descriptive Modal Verbs; 2.3.2 Updates and Speech Acts; 2.3.3 Imperatives and Declaratives on a Par; 3 Imperatives as Graded Modals; 3.1 Modality in Possible Worlds Semantics; 3.1.1 Simple Modality; 3.1.2 Personal and Impersonal Conversational Backgrounds
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1.3 Graded Modality3.2 Imperatives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface; 3.2.1 General Considerations on the Syntactic Make-Up of Imperatives; 3.2.2 Tense, Aspect, and Their Relation to Modality; 3.2.3 Temporal Oppositions in Imperatives; 3.2.4 The Imperative Subject; 3.2.5 Do Imperatives Express Personal Modality?; 3.3 Conclusion; 4 From Modalized Propositions to Speech Acts; 4.1 Contextual Dependence in the Propositional Meaning Components; 4.1.1 Orders, Commands, and Requests; 4.1.2 Prohibitions; 4.1.3 Wishes and Absent Wishes; 4.1.4 Advice
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2 Constraining the Predictions: The Presuppositional Meaning Component4.2.1 Restrictions Familiar from Modal Verbs; 4.2.2 Authority: Deriving Self-Verification; 4.2.3 Epistemic Uncertainty and the OrderingSource Restriction; 4.2.4 Putting It All Together; 4.3 Some Considerations on Propositionality and Rejections; 5 Possibility Readings; 5.1 Permitting Permissions; 5.1.1 Permission-like Speech Acts; 5.2 Any Troubles?; 5.2.1 Indifference Any-Imperatives; 5.2.2 Subtrigged Necessity Any-Imperatives; 5.2.3 Recapitulating Any-Results; 5.3 For Example-Advice
Description / Table of Contents:
5.3.1 (In)Exhaustive Necessity and Possibility5.3.2 Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Embedding Imperatives; 6.1 Reported Speech and Imperatives from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective; 6.1.1 Indirect Speech, Parentheticals, and Quotations; 6.1.2 Quotative Constructions in Japanese and Malagasy; 6.1.3 Fossilized Constructions in Ancient Greek and Middle High German; 6.1.4 Context Harmony in Old Germanic; 6.1.5 Embedded Imperatives in Modern High German; 6.1.6 Conclusion; 6.2 Conditional Imperatives and Modal Subordination; 6.2.1 A Full Paradigm of CIs
Description / Table of Contents:
6.2.2 CIs and the Modal Operator Analysis of Imperatives
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2269-9
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