Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Name: Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
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ISBN: 9780080436340

ISBN-10: 008043634X

ISBN-13: 9780080436340

Edition: 2000

Authors: Anna Papafragou

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Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface is a series that focuses upon the relationship between semantic and pragmatic theories for a variety of natural language constructions.

Book details

List price: $157.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: BRILL
Publication date: 9/26/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Section and chapter headings


Preface


Introduction


The issues


Theoretical commitments: relevance theory


The Semantics and Pragmatics of English Modal Verbs


Introductory remarks


Previous analyses


A semantic proposal


The pragmatics of root modality


The pragmatics of epistemic modality


Concluding remarks


Removing Objections to a Unitary Semantic Analysis


Introductory remarks


Syntax and interpretation


Truth-conditional behaviour


'Speech-act' modality


Concluding remarks


The Acquisition of Modality


Introductory remarks


Psycholinguistic evidence: a review


A developmental proposal


A note on autism and mindblindness


Concluding remarks


Implications for the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface


Introductory remarks


Options for lexical semantics: monosemy, ambiguity, polysemy


Inference and the plasticity of lexical concepts


Historical and developmental perspectives


Concluding remarks


Conclusion


Bibliography