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Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

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  • © 2007

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  1. Uli Sauerland
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  2. Penka Stateva
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Uli Sauerland, Penka Stateva
    Pages 1-11

  3. Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions

    • Sigrid Beck
    Pages 12-33

  4. Licensing or

    • Regine Eckardt
    Pages 34-70

  5. Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures

    • Danny Fox
    Pages 71-120

  6. Partial Variables and Specificity

    • Gerhard Jäger
    Pages 121-162

  7. Negated Antonyms: Creating and Filling the Gap

    • Manfred Kritka
    Pages 163-177

  8. A Pragmatic Constraint on Adverbial Quantification

    • Orin Percus
    Pages 178-213

  9. Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection

    • Philippe Schlenker
    Pages 214-242

  10. Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures

    • Benjamin Spector
    Pages 243-281

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 282-285
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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.

About the authors

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 of Nantes, France PHILIPPE SCHLENKER Professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, USA and is affiliated with Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS) in Paris, France BENJAMIN SPECTOR Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

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