Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms

by Wayne A. Davis

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The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or "metalinguistic") negations. A total of ten distinct negatives-several previously unclassified-are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially non-compositional but completely conventional.
The author argues that two of the irregular negative meanings are implicatures. The others are semantically...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:9402413766

ISBN13:9789402413762

Release Date:April 2018

Publisher:Springer

Length:317 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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