Reclaiming control as a semantic and pragmatic phenomenon / Patrick Duffley, Université Laval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffley, Patrick J., author.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; Volume 251.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; Volume 251

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Infinitival constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Control (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax postulate underlying Landau (2013)'s Control in Generative Grammar that form must be hived off from meaning and studied separately. Duffley shows control to depend on meaning in combination with inferences based on the nature of the events expressed by the matrix and complement, the matrix subject,

Contents:

Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics - what is said and what is not; Chapter 2. The phenomenon of control; Chapter 3. The meaning of the to-Infinitive and of the Gerund-participle; Chapter 4. Control with the Infinitive and Gerund-participle in subject function; 1. Introduction; 2. Controller identified intra-sententially; 3. Controller identified extra-sententially

Chapter 5. Control with the infinitive and gerund-participle as direct complement of another verb1. The gerund-participle; 2. The infinitive; 3. The explanation of control; 4. Verbs of choice; 5. Verbs of risk; Chapter 6. Control in structures with non-finite verb forms in both subject and complement functions; 1. Introduction; 2. The natural-language semantic categories involved in control structures with non-finite verb forms in both subject and complement functions; 2.1 The semantic content of the non-finite subject; 2.2 The lexical-semantic content of the main verb

2.3 The semantic content of the complement2.4 The nature of the relationship between the non-finite subject and the main verb; 2.5 The nature of the relationship between the complement and the main verb; 3. Verbs denoting entailment; 4. Verbs denoting risk; 5. Verbs denoting facilitation; 6. Verbs expressing the notion of requirement; 7. Verbs denoting inclusion and exclusion; 8. Verbs expressing avoidance; 9. Verbs denoting justification; 10. Conclusions; Chapter 7. Control in adjective + to-infinitive constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. Subject=subject constructions

3. Subject=object constructions4. Conclusions; Chapter 8. Control in verb + NP + to-infinitive constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. What the ICE-GB corpus shows; 3. What the ICE-GB doesn't show; 4. Conclusions; Chapter 9. Control in verb + to + gerund-participle vs. verb + to + infinitive constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. Verbs expressing the notion of agreement; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The verb agree; 2.3 The verb consent; 2.4 The verb assent; 2.5 The verb acquiesce; 2.6 The verb accede; 2.7 The verb subscribe; 2.8 The verb submit; 2.9 The verb commit

2.10 Conclusions on verbs expressing the notion of agreement3. Verbs expressing the notions of admitting and attesting; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The verb admit; 3.3 The verb confess; 3.4 The verb acknowledge; 3.5 The verb avow; 3.6 The verb own; 3.7 The phrasal verb own up to; 3.8 The verb attest; 3.9 The verb testify; 3.10 The verb swear; 3.11 The verb claim; 3.12 Conclusions; Chapter 10. Control in constructions composed of matrix verb + deverbal noun; 1. Introduction; 2. Verbs which have non-subject control with the gerund-participle

3. Verbs which have subject control with the gerund-participle

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269478

9027269475

OCLC:

893332976