Mixed quotation: The grammar of apparently transparent opacity
The phenomenon of mixed quotation exhibits clear signs of both the apparent transparency of compositional language use and the opacity of pure quotation. I argue that the interpretation of a mixed quotation in- volves the resolution of a metalinguistic presupposition. The leading idea behind my prop...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2014-05-01
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Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2892 |