Ernesto Perini-Santos presents his ‘Articulating a framework for Unarticulated Constituents’.
Speaker
Ernesto Perini-Santos (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Commentators
- Eduarda Calado (CoNICET, IIF-SADAF)
- Guilherme Cardoso (Federal University of Ouro Preto)
Paper
Articulating a framework for Unarticulated Constituents
Abstract
The truth-conditions of many utterances have components that do not correspond to any uttered morpheme. This happens because linguistic acts are always a supplement to whatever else is available to agents engaged in a conversation. Unarticulated constituents result from the informational trade-off between what is available in the situation of utterance and what needs to be linguistically articulated. Unarticulated constituents are constituents of propositions, that is, of classifying tools that are neutral with respect to the way in which what is given in a situation interacts with the words uttered.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12386