The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek
This paper focuses on the interpretation of what has been considered an expletive marker in the grammar of the Greek nominal domain: the plural number of mass nouns. We present the results of an experimental investigation on the interpretation of plural mass nouns by native speakers of this language...
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| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/243808 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.017 |
| Nivel de acceso: | Acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Plural mass nouns Speech acts Commitments Greek |
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| author | Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894 |
| author2 | Borràs Comes, Joan Manel|||0000-0002-2855-7340 Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253 |
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| author_browse | Borràs Comes, Joan Manel|||0000-0002-2855-7340 Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253 Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894 |
| author_facet | Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894 Borràs Comes, Joan Manel|||0000-0002-2855-7340 Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253 |
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| description | This paper focuses on the interpretation of what has been considered an expletive marker in the grammar of the Greek nominal domain: the plural number of mass nouns. We present the results of an experimental investigation on the interpretation of plural mass nouns by native speakers of this language, and we propose a speech act analysis according to which at the time of producing utterances that contain plural mass nouns the speaker performs two speech acts: an assertion and an expressive speech act by which (s)he publicly commits to an emotive stance of dislike towards the expressed proposition φ. This stance is analyzed as an emotive judgment with respect to φ, the expression of which directly transfers the speaker's emotion from the conversation into the speaker and addressee's common ground. |
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| publishDate | 2021 |
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| spelling | The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894 Borràs Comes, Joan Manel|||0000-0002-2855-7340 Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253 Plural mass nouns Speech acts Commitments Greek This paper focuses on the interpretation of what has been considered an expletive marker in the grammar of the Greek nominal domain: the plural number of mass nouns. We present the results of an experimental investigation on the interpretation of plural mass nouns by native speakers of this language, and we propose a speech act analysis according to which at the time of producing utterances that contain plural mass nouns the speaker performs two speech acts: an assertion and an expressive speech act by which (s)he publicly commits to an emotive stance of dislike towards the expressed proposition φ. This stance is analyzed as an emotive judgment with respect to φ, the expression of which directly transfers the speaker's emotion from the conversation into the speaker and addressee's common ground. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/243808 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.017 |
| spellingShingle | The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894 Plural mass nouns Speech acts Commitments Greek |
| title | The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek |
| title_full | The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek |
| title_fullStr | The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek |
| title_full_unstemmed | The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek |
| title_short | The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek |
| title_sort | The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek |
| topic | Plural mass nouns Speech acts Commitments Greek |
| topic_facet | Plural mass nouns Speech acts Commitments Greek |
| url | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/243808 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.017 |