Approaches to Meaning : Composition, Values, and Interpretation.
Material type: TextSeries: 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 ViewIntro -- 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.
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