Is free enrichment always free? Revisiting ad hoc-concept construction

In relevance-theoretic pragmatics, lexical adjustment, or ad hoc-concept construction, is considered a case of free pragmatic enrichment. It hence included within the group non-linguistically mandated processes that are automatically carried out during comprehension. Its output an inferentially-specified representation conceptual content encoded, activated, by open-class words like nouns, adjectives, verbs adverbs. Ad construction necessary step to obtain fully propositional, truth-evaluable form captures in more precise manner portion meaning speaker communicates explicitly. However, this paper argues process needs not always be described as completely exempt from linguistic mandate: it may sometimes enacted and steered series elements. These fall two categories: (i) evaluative morphemes some items receive languages, (ii) phrasal adjacent words. elements would finetune representations arising regards specific, contextdependent features shades. Moreover, they could add such information about speaker's attitude towards, stance about, what speakers refer to. Therefore, derived implicatures.