Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond

✍ Scribed by Eric McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita, Kei Yoshimoto (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 376
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
The Non Cooperative Basis of Implicatures....Pages 9-30
Meta-Lambda Calculus and Linguistic Monads....Pages 31-64
Coordinating and Subordinating Binding Dependencies....Pages 65-83
What is a Universal? On the Explanatory Potential of Evolutionary Game Theory in Linguistics....Pages 85-103
Continuation Hierarchy and Quantifier Scope....Pages 105-134
Japanese Reported Speech: Towards an Account of Perspective Shift as Mixed Quotation....Pages 135-154
What is Evidence in Natural Language?....Pages 155-180
A Categorial Grammar Account of Information Packaging in Japanese....Pages 181-203
A Note on the Projection of Appositives....Pages 205-222
Towards Computational Non-associative Lambek Lambda-Calculi for Formal Pragmatics....Pages 223-250
On the Functions of the Japanese Discourse Particle yo in Declaratives....Pages 251-271
A Question of Priority....Pages 273-293
Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Dynamic Epistemic Preference Logic....Pages 295-324
A Modal Scalar-Presuppositional Analysis of Only ....Pages 325-341
Floating Quantifiers in Japanese as Adverbial Anaphora....Pages 343-374