I. Information Structure and Contrastiveness -- 1. Contrastive Topic, Contrastive Focus, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures -- 2. Partition Semantics and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic -- 3. Deriving the Properties of Structural Focus -- 4. Topic, Focus, and Exhaustive Interpretation -- 5. The Interpretation of a “contrast-marking” Particle -- 6. Scalar Implicatures, Presuppositions, and…
- Introduction -- PART I: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES -- Chapter 1: Discourses on discourse -- Chapter 2: Who’s involved in discourse? -- Chapter 3: What is it that’s going on here? -- Chapter 4: How do you know that? -- Chapter 5: Why that now? -- Chapter 6: What actions are being taken here, by whom and why? -- Chapter 7: How do discourse and social change drive each other? -- PART II: A MULTI-PE…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical and empirical background -- Chapter 3. Long-term representation of the entire alternative set -- Chapter 4. The mechanisms of activation and competitive inhibition -- Chapter 5. What's included in the set of alternatives? -- Chapter 6. Contrastive pitch accents and focus particles -- Chapter 7. Conclusions.This book presents a novel experimental…
- Chapter 1: Manipulated Context -- Chapter 2: Double function -- Chapter 3: Disposition -- Chapter 4: Orientation -- Chapter 5: Contrasting mind styles -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional gr…
Roots: Where Syntax, Morphology, and the Lexicon Meet -- The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory? -- The Contents of the Root: Multiple Contextualized Meaning in Hebrew -- The Morphological Consequences of MCM: An Intermediate Summary -- Roots Across Patterns in Hebrew -- A Theory of Hebrew Verbal Morpho-Syntax -- Roots in Word-Formation: The Root Hypothesis Revisited.Th…
Introducing Perspectives on Aspect -- Aspectual Composition: Surveying the Ingredients -- Quantized Direct Objects Don’t Delimit After All -- Quantification and Aspect -- Prepositions and Results in Italian and English: An Analysis from Event Decomposition -- Atelicity, Pluractionality, and Adverbial Quantification -- On Accumulating and Having IT All -- Adverbs of Completion in an Event Sema…
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 …
Acknowledgements -- About the author -- A note on referencing Peirce’s writings -- 1 The Story of Charles Sanders Peirce -- 2 Introducing Pragmatism -- 3 Inquiry and Inferential Thinking -- 4 Inferential Logic and Inquiry -- 5 Semiotics: The Theory of Signs -- 6 Semiotics Continued -- 7 The Categories -- 8 Final Words -- References -- Index.This book introduces a number of selected ideas from…
Introduction by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Zhaohui Luo -- Part I. Foundational Issues -- Context-Passing and Underspecification in Dependent Type Semantics by Daisuke Bekki and Koji Mineshima -- On the Interpretation of Common Nouns: Types v.s. Predicates by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Zhaohui Luo -- Adapting Type Theory with Records for Natural Language Semantics by Robin Cooper -- Gene…