Expressive updates, much
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2985356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Gutzmann (0000-0003-2693-789X), Robert Henderson (0009-0007-9492-8975) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-135 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2019.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W2921719247 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article investigates a novel use of much in a construction that has not yet been recognized in the theoretical literature-as in Angry, much?-which we dub 'expressive much'. Our primary proposal is that expressive much is a shunting operator in the sense of McCready 2010, which targets a gradable predicate and adds a speaker's evaluative attitude about the degree to which an individual stands out on the relevant scale. In particular, we argue that it does so in a way that allows it to perform an 'expressive question', which can be understood as a counterpart to a polar question, but in the expressive meaning dimension. In doing so, we present the first example of a shunting expression in English and provide, based on Gunlogson 2008, a new model of the discourse context that allows us to account for the different ways that expressive and nonexpressive content enters the common ground
Context (archaeology · Dimension (graph theory · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Predicate (mathematical logic · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Use-Conditional Meaning
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste
A question of commitment
Beyond Expressives
Meaning without Truth
Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs
At-issue Proposals and Appositive Impositions in Discourse
Experimental Evidence for the Truth Conditional Contribution and Shifting Information Status of Appositives
Q-Adjectives and the Semantics of Quantity
Three Ways to Avoid Commitments
Interpreting focus
Varieties of conventional implicature
The expressive dimension
The semantics ofmany, much, few, andlittle
Adverbs and quantification
Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |