Formal pragmatic account of Double Access
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19513121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Klecha (Swarthmore College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Pages | 19-36 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ZAS Papers in Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1435-9588 • E-ISSN: 1435-9588 |
| Publisher | University Library J. C. Senckenberg (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21248/zaspil.61.2018.482 |
| OpenAlex | W2998766805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper argues that Double Access sentences in English (Smith, 1978) are akind of loose talk. When the meaning of a Double Access sentence is computed literally, theresult is infelicity. Double Access sentences can be used meaningfully only when rescued bypragmatics which intervenes to interpret the embedded clause loosely. A formal model forloose interpretation, building on Klecha (2018), is provided.Keywords: tense, embedding, Double Access, imprecision, defaults, embedded implicature
Dependent clause · Embedding · Epistemology · Implicature · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Pragmatics · Programming language · Sentence · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |