What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?

This paper addresses the theoretical and descriptive relevance of pragmatic inference with the purpose of exploring the syntax-semantics interface in secondary predication in English. Most standard syntactic analyses proceed on the assumption that there is a uniform, one-to-one correspondence of the...

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Autor: Gonzálvez García, Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Palabra clave:Secondary predication
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Implicature
Complex predicate
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spelling What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?Gonzálvez García, FranciscoSecondary predicationSyntaxSemanticsPragmaticsImplicatureComplex predicateThis paper addresses the theoretical and descriptive relevance of pragmatic inference with the purpose of exploring the syntax-semantics interface in secondary predication in English. Most standard syntactic analyses proceed on the assumption that there is a uniform, one-to-one correspondence of the postverbal NP (NP2 henceforth) and the following XP with the semantic interpretation of these phrases as direct object and complement/modifier (or adjunct), respectively. However, upon closer examination of sentences like “I found John gone/out of sight” or “I have a tooth missing”, it appears that such an assumption can be challenged on both theoretical and descriptive grounds. Since these pragmatically marked predication structures involve the cancellation of the conventional implicature of the NP1 V NP2 string, it is suggested that the syntactic analysis of these instances cannot be established solely on the basis of formal properties alone, but rather needs to be seen in terms of the interaction of the inherent meaning and form properties of the syntactic constituents of the construction with the actual interpretation of these properties by the subject/speaker in a given discourse scenario. At a descriptive level, it is argued that these marked instances of secondary predication can be more aptly analyzed, both syntactically and semantically, as involving complex predicates taking the postverbal NP2 as their sole object argument.Xunta de Galicia (España) PGIDT00PXI20402PRMinisterio de Ciencia y Tecnología (España) BFF 2000-1271Universidad de Sevilla2002info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11441/34047reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésELIA, 3, 281-297PGIDT00PXI20402PRBFF 2000-1271http://institucional.us.es/revistas/elia/3/17.%20gonzalvez.pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/340472026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
title What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
spellingShingle What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
Gonzálvez García, Francisco
Secondary predication
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Implicature
Complex predicate
title_short What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
title_full What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
title_fullStr What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
title_full_unstemmed What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
title_sort What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gonzálvez García, Francisco
author Gonzálvez García, Francisco
author_facet Gonzálvez García, Francisco
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Secondary predication
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Implicature
Complex predicate
topic Secondary predication
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Implicature
Complex predicate
description This paper addresses the theoretical and descriptive relevance of pragmatic inference with the purpose of exploring the syntax-semantics interface in secondary predication in English. Most standard syntactic analyses proceed on the assumption that there is a uniform, one-to-one correspondence of the postverbal NP (NP2 henceforth) and the following XP with the semantic interpretation of these phrases as direct object and complement/modifier (or adjunct), respectively. However, upon closer examination of sentences like “I found John gone/out of sight” or “I have a tooth missing”, it appears that such an assumption can be challenged on both theoretical and descriptive grounds. Since these pragmatically marked predication structures involve the cancellation of the conventional implicature of the NP1 V NP2 string, it is suggested that the syntactic analysis of these instances cannot be established solely on the basis of formal properties alone, but rather needs to be seen in terms of the interaction of the inherent meaning and form properties of the syntactic constituents of the construction with the actual interpretation of these properties by the subject/speaker in a given discourse scenario. At a descriptive level, it is argued that these marked instances of secondary predication can be more aptly analyzed, both syntactically and semantically, as involving complex predicates taking the postverbal NP2 as their sole object argument.
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