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1 online resource (350 pages). |
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text file |
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Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The basic claims of traditional truth-conditional semantics are that the semantic interpretation of a sentence is connected to the truth of that sentence in a situation, and that the meaning of the sentence is derived compositionally from the semantic values meaning of its constituents and the rules that combine them. Both claims have been subject to an intense debate in linguistics and philosophy of language. The original research papers collected in this volume test the boundaries of this classic view from a linguistic and a philosophical point of view by investigating the foundational notions of composition, values and interpretation and their relation to the interfaces to other disciplines. They take the classical theories one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers speakers intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, meaning of fiction and literature, as well as vague and paradoxical utterances. |
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Acknowledgements; List of Contributers; Composition, Values, and Interpretation (Gutzmann, Köpping, and Meier); Part 1. Composition; Does Context Change? (Kupffer); The Live Principle of Compositionality (Dekker); Operators for Definition by Paraphrase (Rooth); Part 2. Values; Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? More on Missing (Sæbø); Information, Issues, and Attention (Ciardelli, Groenendijk, and Roelofsen); A Truth-conditional Account of Free-choice Disjunction (Forbes); Being Tolerant about Identity? (van Rooij). |
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The Property Paradox in (Not So Plain) English (Schlenker)Part 3. Interpretation; Dear Ede! (Eckardt); On the Meaning of Fictional Texts (Bauer and Beck); Notes on Disagreement (Klein and Kracht); Was glaubt EDE, wer der Mörder ist? On D-trees, Embedded Foci, and Indirect Scope Marking (Zimmermann); A New Type of Informative Tautology: Für Unbefugte Betreten Verboten! (Krifka); Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Compositionality (Linguistics)
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Compositionality (Linguistics) |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conditionals.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conditionals. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gutzmann, Daniel, editor.
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Köpping, Jan, editor.
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Meier, Cécile, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Approaches to meaning. 9789004279360 9004279369 (DLC) 2014024422 |
| ISBN |
9004279377 (electronic book) |
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9789004279377 (electronic book) |
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9789004279360 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004279369 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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