The construction of meaning / edited by David I. Beaver ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beaver, David I., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Physical Description:

ix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, [2002]

Summary:

This volume collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, including contributions from Eve Clark, Paul Kiparsky, Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl, and Arnold M. Zwicky. The research covers a number of languages -- English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Quechua -- and phenomena, including adverbial modification, classifiers, constructional meaning, control phenomena, evidentiality, events semantics, focus, presupposition, and quantification. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the latest developments in the study of meaning.

Contents:

A resource-sensitive semantics for equi and raising / Ash Asudeh

Presupposition projection in DRT / David I. Beaver

Making use of pragmatic inferences in the acquisition of meaning / Eve V. Clark

Temporal interpretation of modals / Cleo Condoravdi

Remarks on evidential hierarchies / Martina Faller

Event structure and the perfect / Paul Kiparsky

Subject-oriented with-phrases in event semantics / David A. McKercher

Spatial representation and shape classifiers in Japanese and Korean / Kyonghee Paik and Francis Bond

Does English Rrally have resumptive quantification / Stanley Peters and Dag Westerståhl

Extended postposing and focus structure in Mandarin locatives / Shiao Wei Tham

I wonder what kind of construction that this example illustrates / Arnold M. Zwicky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1575863766

1575863758

OCLC:

49249973