Where Semantics meets Pragmatics / edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Ken Turner.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Turner, Ken, editor.

Heusinger, Klaus von, editor.

Conference Name:

International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (1st : 2003 : Michigan State University)

Series:

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 16.

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics--Congresses.

Pragmatics.

Semantics (Philosophy)--Congresses.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (549 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics and contributors ensures that each chapter integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, that each finds an adequate division of theoretical labour and that each attempts to design and corroborate an elegant account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. Importantly, each paper in the volume focuses on linguistic detail, not merely abstract discussions of a theoretical nature. Thus each paper makes extensive reference to the semantic and pragmatic facts of English and also other languages. This reference gives each of the proposed analyses a more adequate empirical edge and a sharper theoretical focus. This book is a must for all scholars and students interested in the new and vibrant discipline of semantics-pragmatics and to anyone who is fascinated by the prospect of working beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of linguistics and the philosophy of language. The chapters in this volume originate from a workshop at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, held at Michigan State University.

Contents:

(By Way of an) Introduction. A First Dialogue on the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, K. von Heusinger, K. Turner

Semantics - Pragmatics Interface. The Border Wars: A Neo-Gricean Perspective, L.R. Horn

A 'Just That' Lexical Meaning for Most, M. Ariel

Pragmatics and Nominal Reference. How to Deny a Presupposition, A. Cohen

Type Shifting of Entities in Discourse, M. Hegarty

The Hidden Path of Semantic Content within Pragmatic Context: A Frequency Study of the Definite Article the, R. Mei-Han Low

Referential Expressions and the Syntax-Semantics (-Pragmatics) Interface, Mayumi Masuko

Bare Nouns and Generics. General Number and the Semantics and Pragmatics of Indefinite Bare Nouns in Mandarin Chinese, H. Rullmann, A. You

Tolerating Exceptions with 'Descriptive' and 'in Virtue of' Generics: Two Types of Modality and Reduced Vagueness, Y. Greenberg

Context and Quantification. Binding Symmetries and Nominal Dualities, A. Branco

Superlative Quantifiers and the Dynamics of Context Dependence, J. Gutierrez-Rexach

Information Dependency in Quantificational Subordination, L. Wang, E. McCready, N. Asher

Information Structure and Underspecification. Semantic Underspecification and the Interpretation of Copular Clauses in English, R. Cann

Mapping VPs to Restrictors: Anti-Diesing Effects in Mandarin Chinese, D. Hole

Contrastive Topic/Focus and Polarity in Discourse, Chungmin Lee

Implicating and Focusing on Lexically Underspecified Information, L. Paris

Mood and Intensionality. Mood, Propositional Attitude and Metarepresentation in Spanish, A. Ahern

Futurity in Default Semantics, K.M. Jaszczolt

Temporal Reference Inside and Outside Propositional Attitudes, H. Kamp.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Contains papers from the workshop "Where semantics meets pragmatics", held as the 1st International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface at Michigan State University in July 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610628407

9781280628405

1280628405

9780080462608

008046260X

OCLC:

475999693

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9780080462608 DOI