Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

ISBN: 9780230005334

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2007-7

页数: 296

定价: $ 129.95

装帧: HRD

内容简介

All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. This volume brings together experts from semantics and pragmatics to bring forward the study of interconnections between these three mechanisms. The contributions develop new insights into important empirical phenomena; for example, approximation, free choice, accommodation, and exhaustivity effects.