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1st ed.). |
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1 online resource (1 volume). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; 17
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; 17.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Front Cover -- Questions in Dynamic Semantics -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions -- 1.1 General Background -- 1.1.1 The Notion of a Question -- 1.1.2 The Semantics of Questions -- 1.1.3 The Partition Theory -- 1.1.4 The Pragmatics of Questions -- 1.2 Current Issues -- 1.2.1 Exhaustification -- 1.2.2 Structured Meanings -- 1.2.3 Knowing Who and Which -- 1.2.4 Dynamic Semantics -- 1.3 This Volume -- 1.3.1 Update Semantics -- 1.3.2 Topic and Focus -- 1.3.3 Implicatures and Exhaustiveness -- 1.3.4 Intonation and Syntax -- 1.4 Remaining Issues -- Part I Update Semantics -- Chapter 2 The Logic of Interrogation -- 2.1 Logic and Conversation -- 2.2 The Game of Logic -- 2.3 The Tools of Interrogation -- 2.4 Partitioning Logical Space -- 2.5 Structuring the Context -- 2.6 Changing the Context -- 2.7 Consistency and Entailment -- 2.8 Licensing and Pertinence -- 2.9 Putting Licensing to the Test -- 2.10 Pertinent Answers -- 2.11 An Illustration. And Nothing Else -- 2.12 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Axiomatizing Groenendijk's Logic of Interrogation -- 3.1 The Logic of Interrogation -- 3.2 The Relation with Beth's Definability Theorem -- 3.3 Axiomatization -- 3.4 Four Perspectives on LoI -- 3.5 Interlude: Optimal Answers and Uniform Interpolation -- 3.6 A Variation on LoI: Varying Domains -- 3.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 4 Optimal Inquisitive Discourse -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Semantic Satisfaction of Questions and Assertions -- 4.3 Logic and Pragmatics of Questions and Answers -- 4.4 Strategic Inquiry with Questions and Answers -- 4.5 Superquestions and 'Mention Some' -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Part II Topic and Focus -- Chapter 5 Only Updates. On the Dynamics of the Focus Particle Only -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Problem -- 5.3 Rooth 1992 -- 5.4 Update Logic for Questions and Answers -- 5.5 Restricted Quantification in ULQA -- 5.6 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Topic and Focus -- 6.1 Background and Motivations -- 6.2 An update semantics of questions and focus -- 6.3 Questions and answers -- 6.4 Pragmatic and semantic role of focus -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 7 Nobody (Anything) Else -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 7.1 Predicate Logic with Anaphora -- 7.2 Topically Restricted Quantification -- 7.3 Quantified Constituent Answers -- 7.4 Something Else -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Part III Implicatures and Exhaustiveness -- Chapter 8 Exhaustivity, Questions and Plurals in Update Semantics -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Exhaustification -- 8.3 Questions -- 8.4 Topic and Focus -- 8.5 Plurals -- 8.6 Scalar Implicatures -- 8.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Only: Meaning and Implicatures -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The focus alternative approach -- 9.3 A background. |
| Summary |
The study of questions and answers is challenging for various fields of theoretical linguistics, logic, analytical philosophy, and more recently computer science. Research into questions and answers addresses old and raises new and important questions about the semantics / pragmatics interface and about the dynamics of interpretation. This book brings together current work on the topic as it has been developed in Amsterdam, and congenial academic sites, over the past 15 years. Amsterdam is one of the breeding grounds for the formal study of logic and language, for dynamic semantics, and for th. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Semantics (Philosophy)
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Semantics (Philosophy) |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Aloni, Maria.
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Butler, Alastair, 1975-
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Dekker, Paul.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Questions in dynamic semantics. 1st ed.). Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2007 9780080453477 0080453473 (OCoLC)80332771 |
| ISBN |
9780080470993 (electronic book) |
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0080470998 (electronic book) |
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0080453473 (Cloth) |
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9780080453477 (hardback) |
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