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Schwellenbach, Sarah ORCID: 0000-0001-8841-8986 (2022). A prominence-based account of the pragmatics of tenses and the underspecification of the Romance imperfect. J. Pragmat., 198. S. 11 - 29. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. ISSN 1879-1387

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Abstract

The interpretation of tenses on the boundary of pragmatics and semantics has long been a contested topic, and little attention has been paid to the hierarchical order of readings and the contextual dynamicity of that order. The present paper provides a prominence-based account of the pragmatics of tenses and applies it to the semantic indeterminacy of the Romance imperfect. Firstly, I introduce the notion of meaning prominence. It incorporates precontextual factors based on the cognitive notion of salience, such as frequency, prototypicality and conventionality, and contextual factors, which are related to the information density of the given context. Secondly, I define the imperfect on a scale of factuality to illustrate how prominence (re)shifting occurs as a result of the interplay between the Rimplicated factual reading and the Q-implicated counterfactual reading. Finally, I discuss how meaning prominence may be incorporated into a recently postulated, generalising definition of prominence. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schwellenbach, Sarah UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8841-8986 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-661216
DOI:	10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.022
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Pragmat.
Volume:	198
Page Range:	S. 11 - 29
Date:	2022
Publisher:	ELSEVIER
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1879-1387
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language LANGUAGE; SALIENCE; CONTEXT; FREQUENCY; STRENGTH; MEANINGS Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66121