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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces
Edited By: Alain Rouveret
URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/lfab.5
Series Title: Language Faculty and Beyond 5
Description:

This book brings together contributions which address a wide range of issues regarding resumption, gathering evidence from a great variety of languages including Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, French, Vata, Hebrew, Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic. The topics covered include the interpretive properties of resumptive pronouns and epithets, the featural make-up of resumptive pronouns, as well as the syntactic diversity of resumptive constructions and the nature of A-resumption. The introduction offers a critical survey of early syntactic accounts and recent semantic advancements. One contribution presents the results of experimental research providing a new perspective on the last resort status of resumption. Two seminal papers on resumption, Doron (1982) and McCloskey (1990), have also been included. This volume, which deals with a phenomenon that has given rise to intriguing claims concerning the structure and interpretation of pronouns, will be of great interest to both semanticists and syntacticians, whichever framework they favor.

Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): Arabic, South Levantine
Breton
Dida, Lakota
French
Irish
Gaelic, Scottish
Hebrew
Welsh

Versions:
Format: Electronic
ISBN-13: 9789027286987
Prices: U.S. $ 158.00
Europe EURO 105.00
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9789027208224
Prices: U.K. £ 105.00
Europe EURO 111.30
U.S. $ 158.00