Catalan “Déu n’hi do” and Conventional Implicatures in Exclamatives
This paper presents a formal semantic analysis of the Catalan interjection ‘Déu n’hi do’ (DND, henceforth) and its interactions with exclamative sentences. The analysis of DND in a nutshell is that (1) it has the lexical meaning of weakening and not of intensification, contrary to previous approache...
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Main Author: | Laia Mayol |
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Language: | CA EN |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2008
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/743b73e826184aa7a076220fa61b22d9 |
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