Drawing the boundaries of meaning : neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn / edited by Betty J. Birner, Gregory Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horn, Laurence R.

Birner, Betty J.

Ward, Gregory L.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 80.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

xi, 350 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This volume in honor of Horn brings together the best of current work at the semantics/pragmatics boundary from a neo-Gricean perspective. Featuring the contributions of 22 leading researchers, it includes papers on implicature (Kent Bach), inference (Betty Birner), presupposition (Barbara Abbott), lexical semantics (Georgia Green, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Steve Kleinedler & Randall Eggert), negation (Pauline Jacobson, Frederick Newmeyer, Scott Schwenter), polarity (Donka Farkas, Anastasia Giannakidou, Michael Israel), implicit variables (Greg Carlson & Gianluca Storto), definiteness (Barbara Partee), reference (Ellen Prince, Andrew Kehler & Gregory Ward), and logic (Jerrold Sadock, Francis Jeffry Pelletier & Andrew Hartline). These original papers represent not only a fitting homage to Larry Horn, but also an important contribution to semantic and pragmatic theory.

Contents:

Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Laurence R. Horn

Introduction

Where have some of the presuppositions gone?

The top 10 misconceptions about implicature

Inferential relations and noncanonical word order

Sherlock Holmes Was In No Danger

Free choice in Romanian

Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties of even

Discourse particles and the symbiosis of natural language processing and basic research

Saying less and meaning less

I can't seem to fi gure this out

Referring expressions and conversational implicature

Indexi-lexicography

Why defining is seldom 'just semantics'

Negation and modularity

A note on Mandarin possessives, demonstratives, and definiteness

On a homework problem of Larry Horn's

Impersonal Pronouns in French and Yiddish

Motors and switches

Fine-tuning Jespersen's Cycle

Index

The series Studies in Language Companion Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612155178

9781282155176

1282155172

9789027293053

9027293058

OCLC:

166335101