Mosegaard Hansen Maj-Britt. Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues, a Study with Special Reference to the French Phasal Adverbs

Elsevier, 2008. — xii, 248 p. — (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface). — ISBN: 978-0-08-055293-4.Preamble
What are phasal adverbs?
Why are phasal adverbs of interest to linguistics?
A note on particles
Structure of this book
Particles at the Lexical-Semantics / Pragmatics Interface: A Conceptual Framework
Frame semanticsSemantics vs pragmatics
Content-level uses vscontext-level uses of phasal adverbs
Instructional semantics
Summary
Types of (allegedly) pragmatic meaning
Conversational implicature
Conventional implicature
Presupposition
Summary
The problem of polyfunctionality in semantic / pragmatic description
Homonymy, monosemy, polysemy
Constraints on polysemy
The notion of “basic sense”
Summary
The problem of paradigmaticity in lexical semantics
Semantic fields and paradigmatic relations between lexical items
Summary
A Peircean approach to meaningGeneral summary
A Framework for Describing the Diachronic Evolution of Phasal AdverbsDiachronic prototype semantics
The evolution of phasal adverbs: grammaticalization or not?
Parameters of grammaticalization
Pragmaticalization
The role of reinterpretation / reanalysis
Summary
Tracing semasiological changes
Transition
Actuation
Motivation
Summary
The notion of “persistence” in semasiological change
A Peircean approach to meaning changeGeneral summary
General Properties of Phasal Adverbs Across LanguagesThe aspectuality of phasal adverbs
The linguistic expression of time: tense, aspect, Aktionsart
The linguistic expression of time: adverbials
Interaction of phasal adverbs with aspect and Aktionsart
Perspectivity
Summary
The paradigmaticity of phasal adverbs
Two competing hypotheses about the interrelations of phasal adverbs
Summary
The presuppositionality of phasal adverbs
Presuppositions concerning preceding phases of the SoA
“Presuppositions” concerning subsequent phases of the SoA
“Presuppositions” concerning earliness or lateness of the change of state
Summary
General summary
Data and Methodology
Empirical basis of the investigation
Corpora used
Problems with the data
Tests
Tests for content-level vscontext-level function
Problems with the use of tests in semantic / pragmatic descriptionContent-Level Uses of the French Phasal AdverbsEtymology of the French phasal adverbs
Temporal and closely related uses of déjà, encore, toujours, and enfin
Déjà
Toujours
Enfin
Summary
Phasal uses of the four adverbs
Déjà
Encore
Toujours
Enfin
Summary
Iterative and related uses of déjà and encore
Déjà
Encore
Additive encore
Habitual toujours
Summary
Déjà, encore, and toujoursas phrasal adjuncts
Focus-particle uses of déjàand encore
Encoreand toujoursas degree adverbs
Summary
General summary
Context-Level Uses of the French Phasal Adverbs“Modal” uses
“Scalar” use
“Categorizing” use
Non-temporal focus-particle use
A note on enfin/ finalement
Summary
Connective uses
Déjà
Encore
Toujours
Enfin
Summary
Interactional usesGeneral summarySummary of results
Retrospects and prospects