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Slurs: A Syntactically Grounded Ambiguity| title | Slurs: A Syntactically Grounded Ambiguity |
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| start_date | 2024/03/05 |
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| schedule | 14h30-16h |
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| online | yes |
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| location_info | On Zoom |
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| summary | In this talk we ground an intuitive distinction between two interpretations of slur-words on the different syntactic configuration of the sentences containing them. We take this phenomenon to give some support to a dualist semantics according to which slurs have both a representational or truth-conditional and an expressive or use-conditional meaning dimension. The talk has the following structure. In the first part, we point to an intuitive ambiguity in certain sentences containing slurs. Then, we argue for the grammatical source of a distinction between predicative/argumental and epithetic readings of those sentences by defending a certain grammatical approach to epithets, according to which they can be assimilated to free pronouns. Finally, we provide different syntactic tests for distinguishing epithetic from predicative occurrences of slur-words, and we introduce some lexical restrictions on epithetic occurrences. |
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| responsibles | NC |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/02/29 13:53 UTC |
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