The expressive dimension

By Christopher Potts. 2007

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Learning Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis (2011, background): “However, in keeping with linguistic and cognitive research arguing that expressive content and descriptive semantic content are distinct (Kaplan, 1999; Jay, 2000; Potts, 2007), we find that this basic model misses crucial sentiment information.”
The heterogeneity of procedural meaning (2016, background): “It seems to me to do pretty well – not only is 694 expressive content largely independent of descriptive content so unable to compose 695 with it (see Potts 2007), but expressive items do not compose with each other in 696 anything like the phrasal manner of descriptive/conceptual content.”
The semantic roots of positive polarity: epistemic modal verbs and adverbs in English, Greek and Italian (2018, background): “…of negation. adverbs tend to appear precisely in the peripheral position in a number of languages including French (Bonami and Godard 2008), and in Spanish (Mayol and Castroviejo 2013) where the high scoping is understood as contributing force and expressive meaning in the sense of Potts (2007).”
Expressives and Identity Conditions (2009, neutral): “The secondary expressive meanings we provide are, by necessity (Potts 2007), very rough approximations to what can be communicated by particular utterances of these sentences.”
How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “Potts (2007) argues along similar lines in ‘‘The Expressive Dimension,’’ suggesting that ‘‘expressive content is not propositional, that it is distinct from the meanings we typically assign to sentences,’’ and that ‘‘expressives in general manifest this descriptive ineffability,’’ or general lack…”
Into the Conventional‐Implicature Dimension (2007, background): “8 Handbook articles devoted entirely to conventional implicature include Potts 2007a,c, 2012; Horn 2007.”