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1 online resource (481 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 2 |
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Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 2.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Spontaneous Logicality of Language; 1.1 Polarity Sensitivity; 1.1.1 Interpretations of or; 1.1.2 An experiment on how scalar terms are interpreted; 1.1.3 Downward Entailing structures; 1.1.4 Maximize Strength; 1.2 Why are there Polarity Sensitive Items?; 1.2.1 Polarity Sensitive Items and their alternatives; 1.2.2 Focus; 1.2.3 Deriving the distribution of any/ever; 1.3 Grammaticality and (un)informativity; 1.3.1 Analiticity as a basis for ungrammaticality: some examples |
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1.3.2 Sifting G(rammatical)-triviality from L-triviality1.4 Varying views on polarity; 1.4.1 Types of PSI and their contexts; 1.4.2 Syntactic licensing; 1.4.3 Semantic licensing; 1.4.4 Pragmatic licensing; 1.5 Concluding remarks; 2 Scalar Implicatures at the Interface between Pragmatics and Syntax; 2.1 Introduction: Free Choice disjunction; 2.2 Empirical properties of Scalar Implicatures; 2.3 Implicatures as exhaustification; 2.3.1 The Gricean Theory and the Extended Gricean Theory; 2.3.2 Silent onlys and evens; 2.4 Deriving the Free Choice effect |
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2.5 The syntax of exhaustification and its predictions2.5.1 Targeted exhaustification; 2.5.2 Open issues and loose ends; 2.6 Concluding remarks; Appendix; 3 Even Negative Polarity Items and Only Negative Polarity Items; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Three types of emphatic NPI; 3.2.1 Minimizers; 3.2.2 Even-one/some NPIs; 3.2.3 Two potential problem cases; 3.3 From actual to potential emphasis; 3.4 Why Negative Polarity Items are (typically) indefinites; 3.5 Summary and conclusions; 3.5.1 Open issues; 3.5.2 Outlook; Appendix; 4 Presuppositionality, Strength, and Concord in Polarity Systems |
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5.3.1 Degrees of negativity5.3.2 Compatibility with different modal bases; 5.3.3 Degrees of freedom; 5.4 Total freedom and "anti-negativity"; 5.4.1 The internal structure of the numeral N qualsiasi series; 5.4.2 The "Proper Strengthening" parameter; 5.4.3 Numerals and FC morphology; 5.5 Partial freedom; 5.5.1 Weak partial variation; 5.5.2 Strong partial variation; 5.6 Loose ends: a note on abstract modals; 5.7 Summary and conclusions; Appendix; 6 Universal Free Choice; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The source of universality; 6.3 Deriving the behavior of universal FCIs; 6.3.1 Subtrigging |
| Summary |
In a fundamental investigation of language and human reasoning Gennaro Chierchia looks at how syntactic and inferential processes interact through the study of polarity sensitive and free choice items. He reformulates the semantics of focus and scope and the pragmatics of implicature as part of the recursive semantic system |
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"Oxford linguistics"--Cover |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191643606 |
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0191643602 |
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9780191765971 |
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019176597X |
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