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Meaning-driven unacceptability, the semantics–pragmatics interface and the "spontaneous logicality of language".

There is a class of expressions which are perceived as 'ungrammatical' not because they are syntactically ill-formed but because they have interpretations which are informationally trivial. Triviality-driven unacceptability constrains the distribution of determiners, modals, attitude verbs, exhausti...

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Published in:Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 3; pp. 989 - 1022
Main Author: Del Pinal, Guillermo
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2025
Subjects:
Semantics
Pragmatics
Quantifiers (Linguistics)
Contextualism (Philosophy)
Determiners (Grammar)
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