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The Grammar of Expressivity (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics) by Daniel (Senior Lecturer in German Linguistics, University of Cologne) Gutzmann is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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While the expressive function of natural language has received much attention in recent years, the role grammar plays in the interpretation of expressive items has mainly been neglected in the semantic and pragmatic literature. On the other hand, while there have been syntactic studies of some expressive phenomena they do not explicitly connect to recent developments in semantics. This book bridges this gap, showing that semantics and pragmatics alone cannot capture all grammatical particularities of expressive items and that expressivity has strong syntactic reflexes that interact with the semantic interpretation and account for the mismatches between the syntax and semantics of these phenomena. The main thesis he argues for—the hypothesis of expressive syntax—is that expressivity is a syntactic feature, on a par with other established syntactic features like tense or gender. Evidence for this claim is drawn from three detailed case studies of expressive phenomena: expressive adjectives, expressive intensifiers, and expressive vocatives. These expressions exhibit some puzzling properties and by developing an account of them employing minimalist approaches to syntactic features and

Who reads The Grammar of Expressivity (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)?

Author

Daniel (Senior Lecturer in German Linguistics, University of Cologne) Gutzmann

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198812135

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Grammar, Dictionaries & Phrasebooks