All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2007

ISBN

9780230210752

Topic

Filosofía

Subtopic

Mente y cuerpo en filosofía

Cover
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
2 Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions
3 Licensing or
4 Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures
5 Partial Variables and Specificity
6 Negated Antonyms: Creating and Filling the Gap
7 A Pragmatic Constraint on Adverbial Quantification
8 Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection
9 Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures
Index