Syntax in the treetops / / Shigeru Miyagawa.

"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts?"--

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2022]
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
Physical Description:1 online resource (261 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage
  • The SAP and the politeness f-feature
  • The SAP, CommitP, and sentence final particles
  • Is the judgment phrase needed? A view from topicalization
  • Questions and the commitment phrase
  • Concluding thoughts: The uniqueness of human language.