he meaning of y tó: conventional implicatures in Puerto Rican Spanish

• Autores: Nieves Rivera
• Localización: Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond: Structure, Context and Development / Juan José Colomina Almiñana (aut.), Sandro Sessarego (aut.), 2021, ISBN 9781003091790, págs. 188-198
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter expands on the current literature on pragmatics, specifically on conventional implicatures by analyzing a construction from Puerto Rican Spanish. I look specifically at the construction y tó “and all,” the reduced version of y todo “and all,” which is commonly used to signal unexpectedness. I propose that the unexpectedness conveyed by y tó is a conventional implicature. Conventional implicatures have a set of properties, such as non-cancellability, which can be used to diagnose an implicature of this type. Along with other properties, I provide evidence showing that y tó behaves like a conventional implicature and thus it can be analyzed as such.