Acknowledgments
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Goals of This Book
1.2 Organization of the book
Chapter 2 Relevant Literature
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Overview of Studies: Type Classification of the Whale Construction
2.3 Kashino (2012)
2.4 Hirasawa (2012)
2.5 Yagi (2015)
2.5.1 “Identified Idiom” and Comparative Construction
2.5.2 Characteristics of Comparative Construction
2.6 Honda (2017)
2.7 Uchida (2020)
2.8 Myoga (2013a, 2013b, 2014)
2.8.1 Conversational Implicature and the Whale Construction (Myoga 2013a)
2.8.2 Analogy and the Whale Construction (Myoga 2013b)
2.8.3 The Mechanism of Rhetorical Interpretation and the Whale Construction (Myoga 2014)
2.9 Summary
Chapter 3 Semantic Structure of the Whale Construction and Its Cognitive Characteristics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Semantic and Constructional Meaning of the Whale Construction
3.3 Semantic Structure of the Whale Construction
3.3.1 Semantic Structure of Each Component Element of the Whale Construction
3.4 Semantic Structure of Each Component Element and Their Composite Structures
3.5 Semantic Structure Analysis of the No More A than B Construction: Another Whale Construction
3.5.1 Type of Construction Whose Preceding Proposition Is True
3.5.2 Type of Construction Whose Following Proposition Is True
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4 Contrapositive Interpretation of the Whale Construction and Its Constructional Typology
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Contraposition
4.2.1 Inverse and Contrapositive Interpretations
4.2.2 Pragmatic Inference and Logical Inference
4.3 Contrapositive Interpretation
4.3.1 What Is “Contrapositive Interpretation”?
4.3.2 A Metaphor of Category as a Container and “Contrapositive Interpretation”
4.3.3 Relation between the Metaphor “Category as a Container” and Categorization
4.4 Relation between Epistemic Conditionals and the Whale Construction
4.5 How and When Contrapositive Interpretation Emerges
4.6 The Possible Range of the Contrapositive Interpretation of the Whale Construction
4.6.1 Comparative Construction and “Contrapositive Interpretation”
4.6.2 Hirasawa (2012, 2014)
4.6.3 Kashino (2012)
4.6.4 Honda (2017)
4.6.5 Hirota (2018b, 2020): Marginal Instances of the No More A than B Construction
4.7 Summary
Chapter 5 Categorization and Rhetoric Reflected in the Whale Construction
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Categorization Reflected in the Whale Construction
5.3 Types of Inference and Cognitive Processes of the Whale Construction
5.3.1 Syllogism and the Whale Construction
5.3.2 Irregular Syllogism and the Whale Construction
5.3.3 Analogy and Categorization
5.4 (Dis-)Continuous Categorization
5.4.1 View of Category Reflected in “A Win Is a Win” and “A Lose Is a Lose”
5.4.2 A Range of a (Dis-)Continuous View of Category
5.5 Summary
Chapter 6 Diachronic Change of the No More A than B Construction
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Analysis and Consideration of Data from the OED (1)
6.2.1 Token Frequency of the No More A than B Construction in Different Periods and Usages
6.2.2 Ambiguous Cases of the Whale Construction
6.3 More Marginal Usages of the No More A than B Construction
6.4 Analysis and Consideration of Data from the OED (2)
6.4.1 Relation between the No Adj-er than and the No More A than B Constructions
6.4.2 With No More NP than B
6.4.3 Have No More NP than B
6.4.4 Analysis of Synchronic Data Based on the BNC and a Proposal for a Constructional Network
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7 Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
