Asserted and implicated meanings in Catalan 'D´eu n’hi do'

Mayol, Laia; Castroviejo, Elena

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.18148/sub/2009.v13i2.558

Asserted and implicated meanings in Catalan 'D´eu n’hi do'

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Mayol L, Castroviejo E. Asserted and implicated meanings in Catalan 'D´eu n’hi do'. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung. 2019;13(2): 371-84. DOI: 10.18148/sub/2009.v13i2.558

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In this paper, we present an analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of the lexicalized Catalan expression Deu n’hi do ´ , which embeds wh-clauses, including exclamatives. Interestingly, though, Deu n’hi do ´ sentences do not convey extreme degree, they have have different distributional properties than matrix exclamatives, and they usually – but not always – co-occur with an exclamative intonation. We argue that the peculiar properties of Deu n’hi do ´ derive from the combination of the assertion and the scalar implicature it conveys, plus the conventional implicature generated by this intonation.

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Comunicació presentada a la 13th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, SuB13, celebrada del 30 de setembre al 2 d'octubre de 2008 a la Universitat de Stuttgart, Alemania.