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The meaning of y tó
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Rivera, Nieves |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | This chapter expands on the current literature on pragmatics, specifically on conventional implicatures by analyzing a construction from Puerto Rican Spanish. I look specifically at the construction y tó “and all,” the reduced version of y todo “and all,” which is commonly used to signal unexpectedness. I propose that the unexpectedness conveyed by y tó is a conventional implicature. Conventional implicatures have a set of properties, such as non-cancellability, which can be used to diagnose an implicature of this type. Along with other properties, I provide evidence showing that y tó behaves like a conventional implicature and thus it can be analyzed as such. Book Name: Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781003091790-12&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 198 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| Starting Page | 188 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003091790-12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-09-16 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond Language Studies Conventional Implicature Unexpectedness Cancellability Pragmatics |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
