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This collection takes the classical truth-conditional view of formal semantics one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers speaker's intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, and the meaning of vague or paradoxical utterances.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Daniel Gutzmann is a postdoc at the Institute of Linguistics at University of Frankfurt. His research interests are semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language. He has worked and published on the semantics of various kinds of non-truthconditional meaning, including expressives, modal particles, personal datives, sentence mood and verum focus, as well as on the pragmatics of quotation.
Jan Köpping is a junior researcher at the Institute of Linguistics at University of Frankfurt. His research interests are semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language. Especially, he is interested in Dynamic Semantics, Context Theory, Contextualism and Event Semantics.
Cécile Meier is a senior researcher at the Institute of Linguistics at University of Frankfurt. Her papers focus on interface issues of the syntax-semantics interface (expressions of comparison and location) and of the semantics-pragmatics interface (presupposition and focus).
Contributors are Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Ivano Ciardelli, Paul Dekker, Regine Eckardt, Graeme Forbes, Jeroen Groenendijk, Daniel Gutzmann, Udo Klein, Jan Köpping, Marcus Kracht, Manfred Krifka, Manfred Kupffer, Cécile Meier, Floris Roelofsen, Robert van Rooji, Mats Rooth, Kjell Johan Sæbø, Philippe Schlenker, and Malte Zimmermann.
