Category-building lists between grammar and interaction

Goria, Eugenio; Masini, Francesca

doi:10.1075/slcs.220.04gor

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Masini

Mattiola

2022

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In this paper we analyse the formal and functional 'extravagance' of general extenders embedded within morphological schemas, either at the end of coordinate compounds, or as constituents of complex words, especially at the end of lists of complex words formed according to the same schema.After discussing two case studies from Italian (eccetera 'etcetera' and tutto 'everything/all'), we conclude that complex words containing general extenders are 'wild words', namely 'contextuals' (Clark & Clark 1979) that are created to meet specific communicative needs and are meant not to be stored. As such, they serve as a strategy to create 'ad hoc categories' (Mauri & Sansò 2018a). The relationship of 'wild words' with lists is also explored and deemed crucial both for their semantic interpretation and for explaining their collocation within morphological structures.

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Masini

Mattiola

2022

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Non-exhaustive connectives

Barotto

Mauri

2022

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This paper provides the first cross-linguistic study on non-exhaustive connectives. After defining non-exhaustivity and briefly exploring the range of linguistic strategies encoding it across languages, the methodology underlying the study will be discussed. Based on the analysis of 35 languages, for which at least one non-exhaustive connective was found, it will be argued that non-exhaustive connectives exhibit quite homogenous distributional properties and derive from a restricted set of recurrent diachronic sources. Speakers are indeed likely to mobilize i) elements already encoding or implying non-exhaustivity, ii) elements expressing an epistemic condition of uncertainty, or iii) elements expressing exemplification.

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Category-building lists between grammar and interaction

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