Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

By Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt, Ken Turner, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080552935
• ISBN13: 9780080552934
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"