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Gutzmann, Daniel and Henderson, Robert (2019). EXPRESSIVE UPDATES, MUCH? Language, 95 (1). S. 107 - 136. WASHINGTON: LINGUISTIC SOC AMER. ISSN 1535-0665

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Abstract

This article investigates a novel use of much in a construction that has not yet been recognized in the theoretical literature-as in Angry, much?-which we dub 'expressive much'. Our primary proposal is that expressive much is a shunting operator in the sense of McCready 2010, which targets a gradable predicate and adds a speaker's evaluative attitude about the degree to which an individual stands out on the relevant scale. In particular, we argue that it does so in a way that allows it to perform an 'expressive question', which can be understood as a counterpart to a polar question, but in the expressive meaning dimension. In doing so, we present the first example of a shunting expression in English and provide, based on Gunlogson 2008, a new model of the discourse context that allows us to account for the different ways that expressive and nonexpressive content enters the common ground.*

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Gutzmann, Daniel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Henderson, Robert UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-155091
DOI:	10.1353/lan.2019.0014
Journal or Publication Title:	Language
Volume:	95
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 107 - 136
Date:	2019
Publisher:	LINGUISTIC SOC AMER
Place of Publication:	WASHINGTON
ISSN:	1535-0665
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/15509