عنوان

Where semantics meets pragmatics /

(Number (ISBN

008046260X

(Number (ISBN

9780080462608

Erroneous ISBN

008044976X

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b700652

Title Proper

Where semantics meets pragmatics /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Ken Turner.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boston :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Elsevier,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 534 pages) :

Other Physical Details

portraits.

Series Title

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface,

Volume Designation

v. 16

ISSN of Series

1472-7870 ;

Text of Note

Contains papers from the workshop "Where semantics meets pragmatics", held as the 1st International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface at Michigan State University in July 2003.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 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 -- Last Page.

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Text of Note

Integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, and attempts to design and corroborate an account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. This reference is useful for scholars and students interested in the vibrant discipline of semantics-pragmatics.

Title

Where semantics meets pragmatics.

International Standard Book Number

008044976X

Pragmatics, Congresses.

Semantics (Philosophy), Congresses.

PHILOSOPHY-- Language.

Pragmatics.

Semantics (Philosophy)

PHI-- 038000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Heusinger, Klaus von.

Turner, Ken,1956-

International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface(1st :2003 :, Michigan State University)

Date of Transaction

20201207162723.0

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pn

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[Book]

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