| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
About the contributors. Abbreviations. Epistemic indefinites, an overview / Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito. Part 1 Extending the empirical landscape: Where do Chinese wh-items fit? / Gennaro Chierchia and Hsiu-Chen Daphne Liao -- Romanian epistemic indefinites / Anamaria Fălă̆uş -- Sinhala epistemic indefinites with a certain je ne sais quoi / Benjamin Slade -- A short history of English epistemic indefinites / Benjamin Slade. Part 2 Sources of evidence, epistemic indefinites, and epistemic modals: Epistemic indefinites and methods of identification / Maria Aloni and Angelika Port -- Evidential restrictions on epistemic modals / Lisa Matthewson. Part 3 Specificity: Grading and hedging by gewiss / Stefan Hinterwimmer and Carla Umbach -- Certain properties of certain indefinites, an experimental perspective / Tania Ionin. Part 4 Other modal DPS: Ignorance, indifference, and individuation with wh-ever / Cleo Condoravdi -- Modified numerals, the epistemic effect / Rick Nouwen -- Indifference and scalar inferences in free relatives / Kyle Rawlins. References. Index |
| Summary |
Within formal semantics, research on the expression of modality in natural language has traditionally focused on verbs. 'Epistemic Indefinites' brings together novel work on the semantics and pragmatics of some nominal expressions that also convey modality. The book focuses on indefinites that can convey ignorance on the part of the speaker with respect to which individual satisfies the existential claim that they make |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 16, 2015) |
| Subject |
Semantics.
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Pragmatics.
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semantics.
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pragmatics.
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Pragmatics
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Semantics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis, 1974- editor.
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Menendez-Benito, Paula, 1972- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191779732 |
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0191779733 |
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