The Linguistic Description of Opaque Contexts (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

The Linguistic Description of Opaque Contexts (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
ISBN-10
1134742231
ISBN-13
9781134742233
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Pages
380
Language
English
Published
2014-02-03
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Janet Dean Fodor

Description

The study of opacity falls under the general programme of showing how the meaning of any complex sentence is composed from the meanings of its constituent clauses, phrases and words. Opaque constructions are special from this point of view because the compositional principles that determine their meaning are so intricate. The main argument of this book is that the systematic ambiguity of opaque constructions has generally been underestimated.

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