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Actuality Inferences
Causality, Aspect, and Modality
Inbunden, 2023
1464 kr
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This book investigates the phenomenon of actuality inferences, in which claims of ability are-in certain temporal contexts-interpreted as descriptions of actual events, instead of as descriptions of potentialities or possibilities. Although actuality inferences evidently arise in the interaction …
From Perception to Communication
A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning
Av Robin Cooper
Inbunden, 2023
1735 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book characterizes a notion of type that covers both linguistic and …
Objects and the Grammar of Countability
Av Peter R. Sutton, Hana Filip
Inbunden, 2026
1534 kr
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This book proposes an object-centred and contextualist account of the count/mass distinction. The main empirical finding is that there is a connection between variation in count/mass lexicalization patterns across and within languages and the ways in which mass or count nouns can diverge from …
Graded Modality
Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2017
2555 kr
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This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of expressions, namely modal auxiliaries such as must, might, and ought. Here, Daniel …
Graded Modality
Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives
Häftad, 2017
713 kr
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This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of expressions, namely modal auxiliaries such as must, might, and ought. Here, Daniel …
Reliability in Pragmatics
Inbunden, 2014
2444 kr
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This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use. It focuses on cooperation in language use and on how considerations of reliability influence what is done with the information acquired through language. Elin …
Reliability in Pragmatics
Häftad, 2014
1078 kr
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This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use. It focuses on cooperation in language use and on how considerations of reliability influence what is done with the information acquired through language. Elin …
Use-Conditional Meaning
Studies in Multidimensional Semantics
Inbunden, 2015
2215 kr
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This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of 'meaning as use' with the traditional semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann adopts core ideas by the philosopher David Kaplan in assuming that the meaning of expressions such as oops or damn …
Use-Conditional Meaning
Studies in Multidimensional Semantics
Häftad, 2015
805 kr
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This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of 'meaning as use' with the traditional semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann adopts core ideas by the philosopher David Kaplan in assuming that the meaning of expressions such as oops or damn …
Gradability in Natural Language
Logical and Grammatical Foundations
Inbunden, 2016
2108 kr
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This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is possible to distinguish between particular subclasses of adjectival predicates—relative adjectives like tall, total …
Gradability in Natural Language
Logical and Grammatical Foundations
Häftad, 2016
798 kr
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This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is possible to distinguish between particular subclasses of adjectival predicates—relative adjectives like tall, total …
The Meaning of More
Inbunden, 2019
2033 kr
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This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a fundamental assumption of degree semantic frameworks: that gradable adjectives like tall lexicalize functions from individuals …
The Meaning of More
Häftad, 2019
846 kr
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This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a fundamental assumption of degree semantic frameworks: that gradable adjectives like tall lexicalize functions from individuals …
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification
Register and Social Meaning
Inbunden, 2019
2092 kr
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This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. Although these expressions are found in many languages worldwide, this volume is the first to approach the area from …
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification
Register and Social Meaning
Häftad, 2019
770 kr
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This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. Although these expressions are found in many languages worldwide, this volume is the first to approach the area from …
Enriched Meanings
Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory
Av Ash Asudeh, Gianluca Giorgolo
Inbunden, 2020
1758 kr
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This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere. Certain expressions that exhibit complex …
Enriched Meanings
Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory
Av Ash Asudeh, Gianluca Giorgolo
Häftad, 2020
598 kr
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This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere. Certain expressions that exhibit complex …
Perspective and the Self in Natural Language
The Grammar of De Se
Inbunden, 2027
1402 kr
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This book investigates the encoding of perspective in natural language, by looking specifically at the class of attitude report known as de se reports. In a de se report, the attitude holder entertains a thought about herself from a first personal perspective. For example, in a typical context 'Ali …
Argumentative Meaning
Bayesian Semantics for Goal-Driven Communication
Inbunden, 2027
1402 kr
Kommande
This book explores the part of natural language meaning that is geared towards convincing, persuading, and more generally changing the belief of an audience. A core claim of the book is that speakers have an agenda when they engage in conversation, and that each of their utterances serves a …
Parenthetical Meaning
Av Todor Koev
Inbunden, 2022
1432 kr
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This book investigates the semantics and pragmatics of a representative sample of parenthetical constructions. Todor Koev argues that these constructions fall into two major classes: pure and impure. Pure parentheticals comment on some part of the descriptive content of the root sentence but are …
Signaling without Saying
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistles
Av Robert Henderson, Elin McCready
Inbunden, 2024
1182 kr
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Signaling without Saying develops game-theoretic approaches to social meaning to model the phenomenon of dogwhistles, perhaps best known from political speech. These constructions involve language that sends one message to an out-group while at the same time sending a second-often taboo, …
Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Inbunden, 2016
2169 kr
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This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, or Licorice is tasty. Standard semantic theories explain the meanings of sentences by specifying the conditions under which they are true; here, Peter Lasersohn …
Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Häftad, 2016
895 kr
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This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, or Licorice is tasty. Standard semantic theories explain the meanings of sentences by specifying the conditions under which they are true; here, Peter Lasersohn …
Weak Island Semantics
Inbunden, 2014
2753 kr
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This book presents a novel semantic account of weak, or selective, islands. Weak islands are configurations that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Examples of island violations with acceptable counterexamples include '#How much wine haven't you drunk?' (but 'Which girl …
Weak Island Semantics
Häftad, 2014
744 kr
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This book presents a novel semantic account of weak, or selective, islands. Weak islands are configurations that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Examples of island violations with acceptable counterexamples include '#How much wine haven't you drunk?' (but 'Which girl …
Definite Descriptions
Inbunden, 2013
2490 kr
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This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently simple conclusion flies in the face of philosophical orthodoxy, which incorporates Bertrand Russell's theory that definite descriptions are devices of …
Definite Descriptions
Häftad, 2013
694 kr
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This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently simple conclusion flies in the face of philosophical orthodoxy, which incorporates Bertrand Russell's theory that definite descriptions are devices of …
The Semantics of Evidentials
Inbunden, 2017
1696 kr
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This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between what propositional content is at-issue and what content …
The Semantics of Evidentials
Häftad, 2017
588 kr
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This book provides argues for a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between what propositional content is at-issue and …
Constraints on Numerical Expressions
Inbunden, 2015
1878 kr
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This book considers how expressions involving number are used by speakers and understood by hearers. A speaker's choice of expression can be a complex problem even in relatively simple-looking domains. In the case of numerical expressions, there are often many choices that would be semantically …
