Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

Informationen zum Autor SIGRID BECK Professor of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, GermanyREGINE ECKARDT Professor of English, Göttingen University, GermanyDANNY FOX Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAGERHARD JÄGER Professor of Linguistics, University of Bielefeld, GermanyMANFRED KRIFKA Professor of General Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Director of ZAS (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin), GermanyORIN PERCUS Faculty of the University of Nantes, FrancePHILIPPE SCHLENKER Professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, USA and is affiliated with Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS) in Paris, FranceBENJAMIN SPECTOR Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Klappentext All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. Zusammenfassung All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar! the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms! widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics! implicature computation and presupposition computation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors Introduction: U.Sauerland & P.Stateva Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions; S.Beck Licensing or ; R.Eckardt Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures; D.Fox Partial Variables and Specificity; G.Jäger Negated Antonyms: Creating and Filling the Gap; M.Krifka Pragmatic Constraints on Adverbial/Temporal Quantification; O.Percus Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection; P.Schlenker Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: on Higher-Order Implicatures; B.Spector Index...

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• Authors: Uli Stateva Sauerland, SAUERLAND ULI STATEVA PENKA
• Assisted by: Sauerland (Editor), U Sauerland (Editor), U. Sauerland (Editor), Uli Sauerland (Editor), Stateva (Editor), Stateva (Editor), P. Stateva (Editor), Penka Stateva (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2007
• EAN: 9780230005334
• ISBN: 978-0-230-00533-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; B, Semiotik und Semiologie, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Semiotics, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Philosophy: logic, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, grammar;language;morphology;pragmatics;semantic;semantics