Approaches to Meaning : Composition, Values, and Interpretation.

By: Gutzmann, DanielContributor(s): Köpping, Jan | Meier, CécileMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (363 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004279377Subject(s): Compositionality (Linguistics) | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conditionals | SemanticsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Approaches to Meaning : Composition, Values, and InterpretationDDC classification: 401/.41 LOC classification: P325.5.C626 -- .A66 2014ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributers -- Composition, Values, and Interpretation (Gutzmann, Köpping, and Meier) -- Part 1. Composition -- Does Context Change? (Kupffer) -- The Live Principle of Compositionality (Dekker) -- Operators for Definition by Paraphrase (Rooth) -- Part 2. Values -- Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? More on Missing (Sæbø) -- Information, Issues, and Attention (Ciardelli, Groenendijk, and Roelofsen) -- A Truth-conditional Account of Free-choice Disjunction (Forbes) -- Being Tolerant about Identity? (van Rooij) -- The Property Paradox in (Not So Plain) English (Schlenker) -- Part 3. Interpretation -- Dear Ede! (Eckardt) -- On the Meaning of Fictional Texts (Bauer and Beck) -- Notes on Disagreement (Klein and Kracht) -- Was glaubt EDE, wer der Mörder ist? On D-trees, Embedded Foci, and Indirect Scope Marking (Zimmermann) -- A New Type of Informative Tautology: Für Unbefugte Betreten Verboten! (Krifka) -- Index.
Summary: This collection takes the classical truth-conditional view of formal semantics one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers speaker's intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, and the meaning of vague or paradoxical utterances.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributers -- Composition, Values, and Interpretation (Gutzmann, Köpping, and Meier) -- Part 1. Composition -- Does Context Change? (Kupffer) -- The Live Principle of Compositionality (Dekker) -- Operators for Definition by Paraphrase (Rooth) -- Part 2. Values -- Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? More on Missing (Sæbø) -- Information, Issues, and Attention (Ciardelli, Groenendijk, and Roelofsen) -- A Truth-conditional Account of Free-choice Disjunction (Forbes) -- Being Tolerant about Identity? (van Rooij) -- The Property Paradox in (Not So Plain) English (Schlenker) -- Part 3. Interpretation -- Dear Ede! (Eckardt) -- On the Meaning of Fictional Texts (Bauer and Beck) -- Notes on Disagreement (Klein and Kracht) -- Was glaubt EDE, wer der Mörder ist? On D-trees, Embedded Foci, and Indirect Scope Marking (Zimmermann) -- A New Type of Informative Tautology: Für Unbefugte Betreten Verboten! (Krifka) -- Index.

This collection takes the classical truth-conditional view of formal semantics one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers speaker's intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, and the meaning of vague or paradoxical utterances.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha