Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms

by Wayne A. Davis

Book Overview

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"