Accounting for non-constituents in hybrid quotations

Why unquotation is not the answer

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ID10141372
AuthorsPhilippe De Brabanter (0000-0002-7259-1159, Université Libre de Bruxelles, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume59
Issue1
Pages1-22
Publication date2022-05-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226722000184
OpenAlexW4281285567
LanguageEN
References cited41

This paper addresses a serious challenge to some recent semantic accounts of quotation: the existence of ‘non-constituent hybrid quotations’, as in Vera said she was ‘very happy and incredibly relieved’ by the supreme court’s decision. These pose a threat to theories that have to make the assumption that hybrid quotations must be co-extensive with syntactic constituents. Responses to the challenge have been proposed, first a quote - breaking procedure, and subsequently unquotation . I argue that these responses fall short of providing empirically satisfactory accounts of the phenomena. Other theories of quotation are not under threat of non-constituent hybrid quotations. I single out a particular family of theories, depiction theories, which have the added advantage of doing justice to the core mechanisms at the heart of quoting

Core (optical fiber · Depiction · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Law and economics · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Supreme court · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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