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Semantic Anomaly, Pragmatic Infelicity and Ungrammaticality

Marta Abrusan

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A major goal of modern syntax has been to find principles that rule out sentences that seem ungrammatical. To achieve this goal, it has been proposed that we can identify different types of "weirdness", in particular that syntactically odd (or ungrammatical) sentences can be distinguished empirically and theoretically from semantically odd (or semantically anomalous) sentences. However, sometimes it is not clear why a sentence is "weird" and this has repercussions for our syntactic and semantic theories. In particular , it has been proposed that semantic and pragmatic processes can lead to "weirdness" that empirically feels more like ungrammaticality than semantic oddness. But if this is so then the question arises: what explains the intuitive difference between sentences that feel ungrammatical and those that merely feel semantically (or pragmatically) anomalous? This article addresses this question by describing and comparing various semantic and pragmatic proposals for explaining different types of "weirdness": ungram-maticality, semantic anomaly and pragmatic infelicity.
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hal-02381339 , version 1 (16-12-2022)

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Marta Abrusan. Semantic Anomaly, Pragmatic Infelicity and Ungrammaticality. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2019, 5 (1), pp.329-351. ⟨10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011938⟩. ⟨hal-02381339⟩
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