On the implicational/non-implicational semantics of adjectives and adverbs occurring in an utterance which contains the information 'more than'

Abstract

This paper considers Serbian adjectives and adverbs denoting qualification property Z in cases when they occur in an utterance of the type ’X is more Z than Y’. The author’s analysis makes it evident that, depending on the lexical meaning of the given adjective / adverb, Z either does, or does not imply that both the X and Y entities are qualified by it. She shows moreover how, by introducing the word još into his utterance, the speaker succeeds to attribute the property Z to both X and Y in spite of its non-implicational meaning.

U radu se razmatra informativno ponašanje srpskih prideva i priloga koji imenuju neko kvalifikativno svojstvo i za koje se, datim saopštenjem utvrđuje da je više zastupljeno u iskazanom entitetu H nego u iskazanom entitetu Y. Osvetljavajući činjenicu da je osobina Z nekad implikativna - nameće spoznaju toga da je ona svojstvena ne samo entitetu H, već i entitetu Y, a nekad neimplikativna, autorka pokazuje kako se, ubacivanjem izraza još u iskaz takva neimplikativnost potire.