Problèmes de linguistique générale
About: This article is published in Language.The article was published on 1968-03-01. It has received 1838 citations till now.
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01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: One of the reasons why the subject of speech acts is so much fun, is that you don't have to worry about what all the great figures from the past said, because most of the great philosophers had no theory of speech act as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: One of the reasons why the subject of speech acts is so much fun, is that you don’t have to worry about what all the great figures from the past said, because most of the great philosophers had no theory of speech acts You can’t go and find Kant’s view on apologising or congratulating, as far as I know (Searle 1984, 251)
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TL;DR: This article found that the lexicon exhibits degrees of iconicity, as defined by two competing tendencies for sound: one towards total iconicity and the other towards total non-iconicity (arbitrariness).
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TL;DR: The authors argue that present perfects compete with simple past tenses, and that the distribution of these tenses shows signs of the impact of this competition, and the outcome of the competition is heavily dependent on which of the two tense-forms is the default.
Abstract: This paper proposes a new look at the so-called ‘present-perfect puzzle’. I suggest that it is in fact part of a bigger problem, which also involves simple past tenses. I argue that present perfects compete with simple past tenses, and that the distribution of these tenses shows signs of the impact of this competition. The outcome of the competition is argued to be heavily dependent on which of the two tense-forms is the default. A pragmatic theory is proposed which accounts for the reduced distribution of the present perfect in languages like English and (American) Spanish, and the reduced distribution of the simple past tense in languages like French and German.
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TL;DR: It is argued that VOS order is not base-generated, as is commonly proposed within Mayan linguistics, but instead is the result of phrasal fronting of the predicate to the specifier of TP, and this analysis receives empirical support from the placement of certain adverbs and PPs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the possibility for le N, en and son N to appear as anaphors is correlated with the type of the relation expressed in the semantic representation attached to their antecedent.
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