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Publication details [#65008]

Padilla Cruz, Manuel. 2018. Expressive APs and expletive NPs revisited: Refining the extant relevance-theoretic procedural account. Lingua 205 : 54–70.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Relevance-theoretic pragmatics has assayed expressives in procedural phrases. Their procedural meaning controls the building of attitudinal descriptions. Expressive APs and expletive NPs produce shorter-ranging attitudinal descriptions. Expressive APs and expletive NPs are transmitted from diverse lexical categories. Lexical pragmatic processes can clarify such transmissions.