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
Format: article
Language:CA
EN
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2008
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/743b73e826184aa7a076220fa61b22d9
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