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Beskrivning
All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation.
SIGRID BECK Professor of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, GermanyREGINE ECKARDT Professor of English, Göttingen University, GermanyDANNY FOX Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAGERHARD JÄGER Professor of Linguistics, University of Bielefeld, GermanyMANFRED KRIFKA Professor of General Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Director of ZAS (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin), GermanyORIN PERCUS Faculty of the University of Nantes, FrancePHILIPPE SCHLENKER Professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, USA and is affiliated with Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS) in Paris, FranceBENJAMIN SPECTOR Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Innehållsförteckning
Notes on Contributors Introduction: U.Sauerland & P.Stateva Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions; S.Beck Licensing or ; R.Eckardt Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures; D.Fox Partial Variables and Specificity; G.Jäger Negated Antonyms: Creating and Filling the Gap; M.Krifka Pragmatic Constraints on Adverbial/Temporal Quantification; O.Percus Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection; P.Schlenker Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: on Higher-Order Implicatures; B.Spector Index