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2019-03Keywords
expressivesdegree semantics
much
rising intonation
shunting expressions
multidimensional semantics
common-ground updates
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LINGUISTIC SOC AMERCitation
Gutzmann, D., & Henderson, R. (2019). Expressive updates, much?. Language, 95(1), 107-135.Journal
LANGUAGERights
Copyright © 2019 Daniel Gutzmann and Robert Henderson.Collection Information
This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
This article investigates a novel use of much in a construction that has not yet been recognized in the theoretical literature-as in Angry, much?-which we dub 'expressive much'. Our primary proposal is that expressive much is a shunting operator in the sense of McCready 2010, which targets a gradable predicate and adds a speaker's evaluative attitude about the degree to which an individual stands out on the relevant scale. In particular, we argue that it does so in a way that allows it to perform an 'expressive question', which can be understood as a counterpart to a polar question, but in the expressive meaning dimension. In doing so, we present the first example of a shunting expression in English and provide, based on Gunlogson 2008, a new model of the discourse context that allows us to account for the different ways that expressive and nonexpressive content enters the common ground.*Note
12 month embargo; published online: 15 March 2019ISSN
0097-8507Version
Final published versionae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1353/lan.2019.0014