TY - BOOK ID - 77919673 TI - Multidimensional semantics of evaluative adverbs PY - 2012 SN - 1283855070 9004248498 1781902720 9781781902721 9789004248496 9781283855075 9781781902714 1781902712 PB - Bingley Emerald DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Adverb KW - Adverbials KW - Adverb. KW - Adverbials. KW - Connectives KW - Semantics. KW - Language arts. KW - Communication arts KW - Language arts KW - Communication KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Language and languages KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Study and teaching KW - Linguistics KW - Philology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77919673 AB - Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs provides a multidimensional analysis for the lexical semantics of evaluative adverbs: nonfactive evaluative adverbs trigger a conventional implicature, whereas factive evaluative adverbs not only trigger a conventional implicature but also a conventional presupposition. This analysis proves to be more advantageous than existing analysis in terms of empirical coverage and explanatory power. With the case of evaluative adverbs, the book demonstrates how secondary meanings (e.g. conventional presuppositions, conventional implicatures) interact with primary meanings (i.e. main assertion, or at-issue content). For the first time, a three-dimensional formal language of conventional implicatures and conventional presuppositions is implemented and applied to derive the right truth conditions of sentences with evaluative adverbs and predict their projection behaviors. With a cross-linguistic perspective (focusing on German, English and Mandarin Chinese) and using corpus- and psycholinguistic methods, the book also offers new perspectives on the syntax/semantics/pragmatics of adverbials. ER -