The Comprehension of ISAs
Nicolas Ruytenbeek · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021
In this chapter, I discuss the main experimental issues bearing on the comprehension of ISAs. A first question concerns differences in processing between direct and indirect SAs, and a second question relates to the differences between the indirect uses and the literal/direct uses of ISA constructions. Another issue is whether the understanding of an utterance as an ISA necessarily implies the derivation of the direct meaning of the construction used, and what properties of the construction make such a direct meaning more or less likely to be inferred.