Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics

Name: Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics
Price: 27.35 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780080449760

ISBN-10: 008044976X

ISBN-13: 9780080449760

Edition: 2006

Authors: Klaus von Heusinger, Ken Turner

List price: $129.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $27.35

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface (CRiSPI) series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics and contributors ensures that each chapter integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, that each finds an adequate division of theoretical labour and that each attempts to design and corroborate an elegant account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. Importantly, each paper in the volume focuses on linguistic detail, not merely abstract discussions…

Book details

List price: $129.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: BRILL
Publication date: 2/28/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 534
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



Workshop picture


Contributors


Preface


(By way of an) Introduction: A first dialogue on the semantics-pragmatics interface


Semantics - Pragmatics Interface


The border wars: A neo-Gricean perspective


A 'just that' lexical meaning for most


Pragmatics and Nominal Reference


How to deny a presupposition


Type shifting of entities in discourse


The hidden path of semantic content within pragmatic context: A frequency study of the definite article the


Referential expressions and the syntax-semantics (-pragmatics) interface


Bare Nouns and Generics


General number and the semantics and pragmatics of indefinite bare nouns in Mandarin Chinese


Tolerating exceptions with 'descriptive' and 'in virtue of' generics: Two types of modality and reduced vagueness


Context and Quantification


Binding symmetries and nominal dualities


Superlative quantifiers and the dynamics of context dependence


Information dependency in quantificational subordination


Information Structure and Underspecification


Semantic underspecification and the interpretation of copular clauses in English


Mapping VPs to restrictors: Anti-Diesing effects in Mandarin Chinese


Contrastive topic/focus and polarity in discourse


Implicating and focusing on lexically underspecified information


Mood and Intensionality


Mood, propositional attitude and metarepresentation in Spanish


Futurity in default semantics


Temporal reference inside and outside propositional attitudes


Index