Zur Grammatik und Pragmatik der Exklamation

Rosengren, Inger

doi:10.1515/9783111353210.263

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“…'She is (but/maybe) beautiful!') (Rosengren 1992 :266, 272, 281) What we observe is that only a subtype of exclamatives can be embedded, namely the one that have the structure of prototypical embedded clauses, (302a). Other types of degree exclamatives can not be embedded, as shown in (302b-d).…”

Section: On the Non-truth-functionality Of Exclamationsmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…In psychology and the neurosciences, we find a traditional distinction between cognition (higher-order processes, including memory, attention, problem solving and planning) and emotion/affect (phenomena such as motivation, evaluation and feeling); see Pessoa The idea that I pursue was pioneered in Rosengren (1992Rosengren ( , 1993, based on the ideas of Fries (1991), though my analysis differs fundamentally from Rosengren's proposal. I argue that EX-utterances are, strictly speaking, expressive utterances and thus distinct from regular statements, which are descriptive utterances.…”

Section: On the Cognition-emotion Dichotomymentioning

confidence: 91%

“…As regards the former, I do not assume a theory or framework where 'clause types' or 'sentence types' are primitives (pace Scholz 1991, Brandt et al 1992, Rosengren 1992; see also Altmann 1987).…”

Section: Cautionary Remarks On Optative Mood and Optative Clause Typementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, both optatives and polar exclamatives involve emotivity, i.e. they seem to express an emotion rather than describe it (Rosengren 1992(Rosengren , 1993). Third, both optatives and polar exclamatives seem to be exclamations (for optatives: Quirk et al 1972, Rifkin 2000, Kyriakaki 2007 variant (see chapter 2).…”

Section: The Source Of Desirability In Optativesmentioning

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On the Grammar of Optative Constructions

Grosz

2012

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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The primary aim of this dissertation is to present an analysis for so-called optative constructions, clauses that express a wish, hope or desire without containing a lexical item that means 'wish', 'hope' or 'desire'. A secondary aim is to contrast optative constructions with so-called polar exclamatives, clauses that express surprise, shock or dismay at a given fact without containing a lexical item that means 'surprise', 'shock' or 'dismay'. The goal is to better understand the way in which syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in order to yield the meanings and uses that these constructions have.The core claim is that we can understand optative constructions by virtue of exploring three properties that they share. First, I argue that optatives (and polar exclamatives) contain a generalized exclamation operator EX, which serves to express an emotion towards the status of the modified proposition on a contextually provided scale. Second, I argue that semantic mood (including factivity and counterfactuality) is encoded in a distinguished Mood head, the content of which co-determines both morphological mood and the material that overtly surfaces in the position of C. Third, I argue for a generalized analysis of prototypical particles, including non-exclusive ONLY, concessive AT LEAST and unstressed DOCH. My analysis treats these particles as truth-conditionally vacuous presupposition triggers, which interact with optativity in three different ways. First, they convey additional information with respect to the modified proposition. Second, they eliminate alternative readings for an ambiguous clause, due to incompatibility. Third, this disambiguating role makes them ideal licensors for a marked utterance type.Chapter 1 of this dissertation is an introductory chapter that presents the core proposal in a nutshell. After this coarse overview, chapter 2 reviews some basic definitions and background on optatives and polar exclamatives. Subsequently, I proceed to a presentation of my entire system in chapter 3. The following chapters discuss each of the three core parts in turn, starting with the EX operator in chapter 4, followed by semantic mood in chapter 5 and finally I discuss particles in chapter 6. Chapter 7 concludes.

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Section: On the Non-truth-functionality Of Exclamationsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: On the Cognition-emotion Dichotomymentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Cautionary Remarks On Optative Mood and Optative Clause Typementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Source Of Desirability In Optativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Grammar of Optative Constructions

Grosz

2012

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“…I assume that exclamation is an element related to the use of language, see also Fries (1988) and Rosengren (1992Rosengren ( , 1994Rosengren ( , 1997. So, how can one imagine the relation between the interrogative meaning of a wh-clause and its use as an exclamation?…”

Section: Unembedded Wh-(exclamatives)mentioning

confidence: 99%