Constraints on Numerical Expressions

Informationen zum Autor Chris Cummins is a researcher in experimental semantics and pragmatics, currently employed as a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this, he worked at Bielefeld University within the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 673, 'Alignment in Communication'. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge, supervised by Napoleon Katsos. His research interests include the mechanisms of implicature and presupposition, the psychology of dialogue, and more generally issues in experimental and statistical methodology. Klappentext This book focuses on the question of how expressions involving number are used by speakers and understood by hearers. The author lays out a set of criteria that are argued individually to influence the speaker's choice of expression, an approach that offers novel predictions about usage and interpretation Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the question of how expressions involving number are used by speakers and understood by hearers. The author lays out a set of criteria that are argued individually to influence the speaker's choice of expression, an approach that offers novel predictions about usage and interpretation Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Constructing a constraint-based model 3: Deriving predications from the constraint-based account 4: Towards a pragmatic account of superlative quantifier usage 5: Scalar implicatures from numerically-quantified expressions 6: Corpus evidence for constraints on numerical expressions 7: Overview and outlook Appendices References Index

Product details

• Authors: Chris Cummins, Chris (Chancellor's Fellow Cummins, Chris (Chancellor''s Fellow Cummins
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9780199687916
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968791-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Surveys in Semantics an; Oxford Studies in Semantics an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics & pragmatics