It is argued that genuinely subsentential phrases, such as a discourse-initial utterance of “From France” to indicate the provenance of an item, provide evidence for the reality of the pragmatic process of free enrichment. I consider recent attempts to treat such discourse-initial fragments as linguistic ellipsis of some kind while accommodating the difference between these cases and accepted types of ellipsis such as sluicing and gapping (for example Merchant 2007a,b). I claim that the mechanisms they posit to save an ellipsis story have no role in an account of performance (an account of the processes of utterance interpretation). An argument against the enrichment approach from the indeterminacy of the content of subsentential utterances is discussed, and refuted, and it is shown how this indeterminacy is accommodated in a contextualist pragmatic theory.
2017. Logical Form and the Vernacular Revisited. Mind & Language 32:4 ► pp. 495 ff.
Capone, Alessandro
2016. Simple Sentences, Substitution and Embedding Explicatures (The Case of Implicit Indirect Reports). In The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 8], ► pp. 321 ff.
Capone, Alessandro
2018. Embedding explicatures in implicit indirect reports: simple sentences, and substitution failure cases. In Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 18], ► pp. 97 ff.
Capone, Alessandro
2019. Pragmatics and Philosophy (and the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate). In Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 22], ► pp. 1 ff.
Vicente, Begoña & Marjolein Groefsema
2013. Something out of nothing? Rethinking unarticulated constituents. Journal of Pragmatics 47:1 ► pp. 108 ff.
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