Dear David,
I do not see any purpose in continuing this discussion, since you appear not
to understand Nordlander´s distinction between semantics and pragmatics. I
quoted Nordlander in the first place for two reasons, 1) to show that other
linguists also deal with the concept of "uncancellable meaning", and 2) to
give an example of how other linguists distinguish between semantics and
pragmatics. But both fell on "rocky places".
BTW, uncancellable meaning can of course never be cancelled; for example,
the phrasal verb "break through" can never loose its properties telicity and
dynamicity.
Best regards,
Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo
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