16.2044, Qs: Grammars: Spanish; Cancelling Gricean Implicatures

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Subject: 16.2044, Qs: Grammars: Spanish; Cancelling Gricean Implicatures

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1)
Date: 30-Jun-2005
From: You-Jing Lin < youjing at umail.ucsb.edu >
Subject: Grammars of Spanish 

2)
Date: 30-Jun-2005
From: Emma Borg < e.g.n.borg at rdg.ac.uk >
Subject: Cancelling Gricean Implicatures 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:24:46
From: You-Jing Lin < youjing at umail.ucsb.edu >
Subject: Grammars of Spanish 
 

Dear Linguist List Colleagues,

Does anyone happen to know of any authoritative grammars of Modern Spanish
and of Spanish of the 15th~16th centuries?

I am currently looking at a case in which the Spanish preposition 'para'
seems to have become more grammaticalized after it was borrowed into a
Nahuatl language. While observing the different uses of 'para' in Nahuatl,
I'd also like to trace the development of the preposition in Spanish since
the 15th-16th centuries.It would be really helpful if I could get a hold of
some grammars that provide such information.

Thanks in advance!

You-Jing Lin
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics



	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:24:49
From: Emma Borg < e.g.n.borg at rdg.ac.uk >
Subject: Cancelling Gricean Implicatures 

	

I read somewhere that Generalized Conversational Implicatures can be
cancelled by purely syntactic features; for instance, they are not present
in downward entailing contexts. However, I don't know who discusses this
point or where.

If anyone could let me know who first raised this point, or where it has
been subsequently discussed, I'd be very grateful. 

Emma Borg
Philosophy Department
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA
UK 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics


 



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