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–43. Dordrecht: Foris. Department of Linguistics New York University New York, NY 10003 [as109@nyu.edu] Interpreting imperatives . By MAGDALENA KAUFMANN . (Studies in linguistics and phi- losophy ...
, ed. by Jeroen Groenendijk, Dick de Jongh, and Martin Stokhof, 11543. Dordrecht: Foris. Interpreting imperatives . By MAGDALENA KAUFMANN . (Studies in linguistics and philosophy.) Dordrecht: Springer ...
will see, ultimately irrelevant to the semantic interpretation of imperatives , I will refer to speech acts falling under either category as command-like . (2) a. Feed me! b. Don’t let me starve! Figure 1 ...
some modal operators, a third interpretational possibility arises. Consider, as illustration, the case of imperatives .7 The command in (10) can be interpreted as telling the addressee to bring a book ...
for this position comes not only from bakáan in declarative sentences, but also its use in imperatives and interrogatives. I argue that the range of uses that the use of bakáan as an illocutionary modifier across ...
in strength and priority. I develop an interpretation of the classic premise semantic framework that captures various ways in which weights and priorities can affect the interpretation of modals. Modals ...
; and they have an idiosyncratic interpretation when they occur in non-declarative utterances. In this paper, I’ll argue that emotive markers form a natural subclass of encoders of not-at-issue content, evidenced ...
Intuitively, the interlocutors will interpret A’s utterance in (15) as a recommendation for B to get the juice from the fridge and drink it. In the preceding discourse, B explicitly mentioned that she ...
encoded in the grammar. First, pragmatic totally is a positive polarity item, as already noted by Irwin (2014) and McCready & Kaufmann (2013). To begin with, it cannot appear in the scope of negation ...
European model for constitutional review , crowned him ‘the jurist of the 20th century’.1 For the sake of a better understanding of Kelsen’s work, as well as its continued allure, contemporary scholars ...
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