TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carla Vergaro
PY  - 2018
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-8689
SN  - 9783034330701
TI  - Illocutionary Shell Nouns in English
DO  - 10.3726/b13318
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055878
N2  - The volume deals with the topic of illocutionary shell nouns in English, i.e. nouns that encapsulate a content that is usually expressed in a complement or in a separate sentence or clause, and report or characterize it as a specific speech act. The book reports a usage-based study of the complementation patterns in a corpus of 335 illocutionary nouns distributed across the five Searlean classes of assertive, commissive, directive, expressive, and declarative nouns. The investigation aims to verify the association between the meaning of these nouns and their complementation patterns, and between their semantic similarity and the similarity in the distribution of complementation patterns.
KW  - illocutionary shell noun, noun complementation, prototype, reliance, shell noun, shell content, speech act
LA  - English
ER  -