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Books: Ling Theories/Pragmatics/Semantics/Syntax: Birner, Ward (Eds)
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Peranteau,
Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Birner, Ward (Eds)
Message 1: Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Birner, Ward (Eds)
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Date: 18-Jan-2007
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Birner, Ward (Eds)
Title: Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning
Subtitle: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R.
Horn
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 80
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2080
Editor: Betty J Birner
Editor: Gregory Ward
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027230904 Pages: 350 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027230904 Pages: 350 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Abstract:
One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic
theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and
Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of
that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This
volume in honor of Horn brings together the best of current work at the
semantics/pragmatics boundary from a neo-Gricean perspective. Featuring the
contributions of 22 leading researchers, it includes papers on implicature
(Kent Bach), inference (Betty Birner), presupposition (Barbara Abbott),
lexical semantics (Georgia Green, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Steve Kleinedler &
Randall Eggert), negation (Pauline Jacobson, Frederick Newmeyer, Scott
Schwenter), polarity (Donka Farkas, Anastasia Giannakidou, Michael Israel),
implicit variables (Greg Carlson & Gianluca Storto), definiteness (Barbara
Partee), reference (Ellen Prince, Andrew Kehler & Gregory Ward), and logic
(Jerrold Sadock, Francis Jeffry Pelletier & Andrew Hartline). These
original papers represent not only a fitting homage to Larry Horn, but also
an important contribution to semantic and pragmatic theory.
Table of contents
Introduction ix-xi
Where have some of the presuppositions gone?
Barbara Abbott 1-20
The top 10 misconceptions about implicature
Kent Bach 21-30
Inferential relations and noncanonical word order
Betty J. Birner 31-51
Sherlock Holmes Was In No Danger
Greg N. Carlson and Gianluca Storto 53-70
Free choice in Romanian
Donka F. Farkas 71-94
Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties of even
Anastasia Giannakidou 95-116
Discourse particles and the symbiosis of natural language processing and
basic research
Georgia M. Green 117-135
Saying less and meaning less
Michael Israel 137-156
I can't seem to figure this out
Pauline Jacobson 157-175
Referring expressions and conversational implicature
Andrew Kehler and Gregory Ward 177-193
Indexi-lexicography
Steve Kleinedler and Randall Eggert 195-215
Why defining is seldom 'just semantics': Marriage and marriage
Sally McConnell-Ginet 217-240
Negation and modularity
Frederick J. Newmeyer 241-261
A note on Mandarin possessives, demonstratives, and definiteness
Barbara H. Partee 263-280
On a homework problem of Larry Horn's
Francis Jeffry Pelletier and Andrew Hartline 281-293
Impersonal pronouns in French and Yiddish: Semantic reference vs. discourse
reference
Ellen F. Prince 295-315
Motors and switches: An exercise in syntax and pragmatics
Jerrold M. Sadock 317-325
Fine-tuning Jespersen's Cycle
Scott A. Schwenter 327-344
Index 345-350
Linguistic Field(s):
Linguistic Theories
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
Written In: English (eng )
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