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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Main Author: Emar Maier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2014-05-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2892