Philosophy of Formal and Physical Sciences -- Demarcation of the Logical Constants and Logical Truth in Terms of Analyticity -- General Theory of Relativity and the 5th Test -- Implications of the Geometry of Quantum Mechanical Perfect Correlation Functions Concerning “Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities” -- Introductory Remarks -- Epistemological and Methodological Issues in Science -- Q…
Introduction: Alfred Tarski’s Philosophical Background in the Context of His 1933 Definition of Truth -- The Notion of the Truth Bearer -- Descriptive Psychology: The Theory of Judgement as the Theory of Cognition and Knowledge -- Judgement, Psychology, and Language -- The Ontology of Judgement -- Reism -- The Objectivity of Truth -- Ontologism, Abstract Objects and Nominalism -- Brentanism a…
The Nature and Scope of Ellipsis -- Against Reconstruction in Ellipsis -- The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives -- Nonsententials in Minimalism -- A Note on Alleged Cases of Nonsentential Assertion -- On the Interpretation and Performance of Non-Sentential Assertions -- Non-Sentences, Implicature, and Success in Communication -- The Link between Sentences and ‘Assertion’: An Evolutionary Ac…
Issues and Interfaces in the Study of Aspect -- Aspect and the Internal Structure of the Clause -- Topic or Aspect -- Some Notes on the Syntax of Quantity -- Articulated vPS and the Computation of Aspectual Classes -- Flavors of v -- Semi-Copulas -- PP, FP and the Telic/Atelic Distinction in Norwegian Motion Constructions -- Aspect, Tense and Discourse -- The Spatio-Temporal Path and Aspectual …
List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. Type Logical Grammar: The Framework. Basic Categorial Grammar. Combinators and Type Logical Grammar. Historical and bibliographical remarks -- The Problem of Anaphora. Anaphora and semantic resource sensitivity. Variables in TLG. Previous Categorial approaches to anaphora. Summary -- Lambek Calculus with Limited Contraction. The agenda. Contraction? The…
- Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Meaning and Communication (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Filippo Domaneschi) -- Blindness, Short-sightedness, and Hirschberg’s contextually ordered alternatives: a reply to Schlenker (2012) (Giorgio Magri) -- Remarks on oddness and conjunction (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Jacopo Romoli) -- A fine-grained global analysis of implicatures (Robert van Ro…
Introduction by James A. Hampton and Yoad Winter -- Cognitively Plausible Theories of Concept Composition by Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Compositionality and Concepts – A Perspective from Formal Semantics and Philosophy of Language by Francis Jeffry Pelletier -- Compositionality and Concepts by James A. Hampton -- Typicality Knowledge and the Interpretation of Adjectives by Choonkyu Lee -- Concep…
Introduction by Edward L. Keenan, D. Paperno -- The Quantifier Questionnaire by Edward L. Keenan -- Quantification in American Sign Language by Natasha Abner, Ronnie Wilbur -- Quantification in Cantonese by Peppina Lee -- Chicasaw Quantifiers by Pamela Munro -- Quantifiers in Dan-Gwɛɛtaa (South Mande) by Valentin Vydrine -- Quantification in Gitksan by Katie Bicevskis, Henry Davis, Lisa Matth…
Preface by F. Poggi -- Part I Pragmatics and Legal Interpretation -- 1. Slippery Meaning and Accountability by Kasia M. Jaszczolt -- Implicitness in Normative Texts by Marina Sbisà -- 3. What Inferentialism tells us About Vagueness in Law by Damiano Canale -- 4. On the Possibility of Non-Literal Legislative Speech by Hrafn Asgeirsson -- 5. The Pragmatics of Scepticism by Pierluigi Chiassoni --…
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Meaning and argumentation -- Chapter 2: Three views of modality in Toulmin -- Chapter 3: Relative modality and argumentation -- Chapter 4: Types of conversational backgrounds and arguments -- Chapter 5: Case studies of Italian modal constructions in context -- Conclusion -- Index.This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in T…