Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
Uli Sauerland and Penka Stateva
All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. This volume brings together experts from semantics and pragmatics to bring forward the study of interconnections between these three mechanisms. The contributions develop new insights into important empirical phenomena; for example, approximation, free choice, accommodation, and exhaustivity effects.
Book of the Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition series
- ISBN: 0230005330
- ISBN-13: 9780230005334
- Editors : Uli Sauerland and Penka Stateva
- Language : English
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 7/1/2007
- Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
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