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Discourse Adjectives
Copyright Year 2006
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Book Description
First Published in 2006. This volume introduces and provides a semantic analysis of Discourse Adjectives, a natural class of adjectives that the author argues includes apparent, clear, evident, and obvious among its prototypical members. With a main claim that Discourse Adjectives do not provide information about the facts of the world. Rather, they are used by interlocutors to negotiate the status of propositions in a discourse.
Table of Contents
Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two The Syntax and Semantics of Proposition-Taking Adjectives; Chapter Three The Framework; Chapter Four The Semantics of Clarity; Chapter Five Discourse Adjectives—Comparison and Analysis; Chapter Six Summary and Conclusions;
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Lawrence Horn, Gina Taranto Yale University