A formal pragmatic account of Double Access
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https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2018.v22i2.68Abstract
This paper argues that Double Access sentences in English (Smith, 1978) are a kind of loose talk. When the meaning of a Double Access sentence is computed literally, the result is infelicity. Double Access sentences can be used meaningfully only when rescued by pragmatics which intervenes to interpret the embedded clause loosely. A formal model for loose interpretation, building on Klecha (2018), is provided.
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2019-05-17
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A formal pragmatic account of Double Access. (2019). Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 22(2), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2018.v22i2.68
