Particles at the semantics/pragmatics interface: synchronic and diachronic issues : a study with special reference to the french phasal adverbs / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Particles at the Lexical-Semantics / Pragmatics Interface: A Conceptual Framework; Chapter 3 A Framework for Describing the Diachronic Evolution of Phasal Adverbs; Chapter 4 General Properties of Phasal Adverbs Across Languages; Chapter 5 Data and Methodology; Chapter 6 Content-Level Uses of the French Phasal Adverbs; Chapter 7 Context-Level Uses of the French Phasal Adverbs; Chapter 8 Conclusion; References; Index
Summary
This book elucidates the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony and proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality. A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized
