Reclaiming control as a semantic and pragmatic phenomenon

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Reclaiming control as a semantic and pragmatic phenomenon

Patrick Duffley

(Pragmatics & beyond : new series, v. 251)

John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax postulate underlying Landau (2013)'s Control in Generative Grammar that form must be hived off from meaning and studied separately. Duffley shows control to depend on meaning in combination with inferences based on the nature of the events expressed by the matrix and complement, the matrix subject, the semantic relation between matrix and complement, and a number of other factors. The conclusions call for a reconsideration of Ariel (2010)'s distinction in Defining Pragmatics between semantics and pragmatics on the basis of cancelability: many control readings are not cancelable although they are pragmatically inferred. It is proposed that the line be drawn rather between what is linguistically expressed and what is not linguistically expressed but still communicated.

目次

  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Chapter 1. Linguistic semantics and pragmatics - what is said and what is not
  • 3. Chapter 2. The phenomenon of control
  • 4. Chapter 3. The meaning of the to-infinitive and of the gerund-participle
  • 5. Chapter 4. Control with the infinitive and gerund-participle in subject function
  • 6. Chapter 5. Control with the infinitive and gerund-participle as direct complement of another verb
  • 7. Chapter 6. Control in structures with non-finite verb forms in both subject and complement functions
  • 8. Chapter 7. Control in adjective + to-infinitive constructions
  • 9. Chapter 8. Control in verb + NP + to-infinitive constructions
  • 10. Chapter 9. Control in verb + to + gerund-participle vs. verb + to + infinitive constructions
  • 11. Chapter 10. Control in constructions composed of matrix verb + deverbal noun
  • 12. Chapter 11. Particular issues raised by other approaches to control
  • 13. Chapter 12. Control in French
  • 14. Conclusion: Human language as the place where mind meets matter
  • 15. References
  • 16. Subject index

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