All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presuppositi
Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
โ Scribed by Uli Sauerland, Penka Stateva (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 295
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions....Pages 12-33
Licensing or....Pages 34-70
Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures....Pages 71-120
Partial Variables and Specificity....Pages 121-162
Negated Antonyms: Creating and Filling the Gap....Pages 163-177
A Pragmatic Constraint on Adverbial Quantification....Pages 178-213
Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection....Pages 214-242
Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures....Pages 243-281
Back Matter....Pages 282-285
โฆ Subjects
Philosophy of Mind; Logic; Linguistics, general; Semantics
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