A Presuppositional Analysis Of Specific Indefinites
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A Presuppositional Analysis Of Specific Indefinites
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Author : Jae-Il Yeom
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
A Presuppositional Analysis Of Specific Indefinites written by Jae-Il Yeom and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First published in 1998. In this book the author presents the view that although many linguists have been interested in specific indefinites, their theories are not quite satisfactory in that they have only tried to explore some aspects of specific indefinites. This paper assumes a standard notion of specificity, i.e., the notion of someone having-in-mind an individual or a relation. Under this assumption, there is an attempt to review previous studies on specific indefinites, and propose a new theory of specificity which I believe can capture all aspects which the previous studies have explored. This leads us to a new information theory which is partially representational and partially denotational., and which is useful for dealing with conversational aspects, like the distinction between the speaker and the audience.
A Presuppositional Analysis Of Specific Indefinites
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Author : Jae-Il Yeom
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
A Presuppositional Analysis Of Specific Indefinites written by Jae-Il Yeom and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First published in 1998. In this book the author presents the view that although many linguists have been interested in specific indefinites, their theories are not quite satisfactory in that they have only tried to explore some aspects of specific indefinites. This paper assumes a standard notion of specificity, i.e., the notion of someone having-in-mind an individual or a relation. Under this assumption, there is an attempt to review previous studies on specific indefinites, and propose a new theory of specificity which I believe can capture all aspects which the previous studies have explored. This leads us to a new information theory which is partially representational and partially denotational., and which is useful for dealing with conversational aspects, like the distinction between the speaker and the audience.
Presuppositions And Discourse Essays Offered To Hans Kamp
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Author : Rainer Bauerle
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-03-23
Presuppositions And Discourse Essays Offered To Hans Kamp written by Rainer Bauerle and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
So it is hardly a decade ago that presupposition theory has been cast into a promising theoretical form. And as this provided an inspiring starting point for further research, we thought that, at the turn of the century, the time had come to discuss what the new theory had taught us and which promising further perspectives had been opened up. This was the motivation behind the conference on "Presupposition" which we convened in Stuttgart in October 2000, and which gave rise to the papers collected in this volume. The conference was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which we gratefully acknowledge. Undoubtedly, presupposition theory is a major chapter in the success story of dynamic semantics. A conference on the topic thus also seemed to us the ideal birthday present for one of the founding fathers of dynamic semantics, our teacher and friend Hans Kamp, on his 60th birthday. To him we dedicate the volume as an expression of our gratitude for his untiring effort to make us understand.
Redefining Indefinites
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Author : Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-04-27
Redefining Indefinites written by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-27 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, other Romance languages and English. Central to the proposed analyses is a distinction between two types of entities, individualized entities and amounts. Weak indefinites are analyzed as existential generalized quantifiers over amounts and strong indefinites as either Skolem terms or generalized quantifiers over individualized entities. The up-to-date review of the literature and the new falsifiable proposals contained in this book will be of particular interest to linguistics students and scholars interested in the cross-linguistic semantics of indefinites.
Presupposition And Implicature In Compositional Semantics
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Author : U. Sauerland
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-05-10
Presupposition And Implicature In Compositional Semantics written by U. Sauerland and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-10 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Indefinites And The Type Of Sets
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Author : Fred Landman
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Indefinites And The Type Of Sets written by Fred Landman and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories. Explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. Written accessibly by one of the world’s most prominent formal semanticists. Useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.
Presupposition And The Delimitation Of Semantics
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Author : Ruth M. Kempson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1975-07-17
Presupposition And The Delimitation Of Semantics written by Ruth M. Kempson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-07-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this book, first published in 1975, Dr Kempson argues that previous work on presupposition - whether in philosophy or linguistics - has been mistakenly based on a conflation of two different disciplines: semantics, the study of the meanings assigned to the formal system which constitutes a language, and pragmatics, the study of the use of that system in communication. The first part of the book deals generally with the nature of semantics in linguistic theory and its formal representation within a transformational grammar; Dr Kempson argues against incorporating the relation of presupposition within such a grammar. The second part provides a pragmatic account of the foundations of a theory of communication and its detailed application to the problems raised by presupposition. The book is intended for those studying both philosophy and linguistics and also for those sociolinguists and psychologists with a more general interest in the theory of communication.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Dissertation Abstracts International written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Dissertations, Academic categories.
Sentence And Discourse
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Author : Jacqueline Guéron
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-29
Sentence And Discourse written by Jacqueline Guéron and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules, the coherence of a discourse is instead dependent on the relations between the sentences it contains. In this volume, leading syntacticians, semanticists, and philosophers examine the nature of these relations, where they come from, and how they apply. Chapters in Part I address points of sentence grammar in different languages, including mood and tense in Spanish, definite determiners in French and Bulgarian, and the influence of aktionsart on the acquisition of tense by English, French, and Chinese children. Part II looks at modes of discourse, showing for example how discourse relations create implicatures and how Indirect Discourse differs from Free Indirect Discourse. The studies conclude that the relations between sentences that make a discourse coherent are already encoded in sentence grammar and that, once established, these relations influence the meaning of individual sentences.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Korean language categories.