Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
. Ed(S): Sauerland, Uli; Stateva, Penka
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Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Sauerland, Uli; Stateva, Penka. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
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.
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.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230005334
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V9780230005334
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About . Ed(S): Sauerland, Uli; Stateva, Penka
SIGRID BECK Professor of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany REGINE ECKARDT Professor of English, Göttingen University, Germany DANNY FOX Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA GERHARD JÄGER Professor of Linguistics, University of Bielefeld, Germany MANFRED KRIFKA Professor of General Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Director of ZAS (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin), Germany ORIN PERCUS Faculty of the University ... Read more
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