Falaus Alternatives in Semantics

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-31724-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Philosophy and Religion (R0)

This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falaus, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Alternatives in Semantics and Pragmatics; Anamaria F?l?u? 2. A Note on the Derivation of the Epistemic Effect as an Implicature; Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito 3. Free Choice Nominals and Free Choice Disjunction: The Identity Thesis; Gennaro Chierchia 4. A Viability Constraint on Alternatives for Free Choice; Veneeta Dayal 5. On the Consequences of an Alternative Semantics for the Analysis of Intervention Effects; Clemens Mayr 6. Mere-ology; Elizabeth Coppock and David Beaver 7. Sets of Alternatives and Syntactic Movement; Marc Novel and Maribel Romero 8. On the Processing of Alternatives, Exhaustification and Covert Negation: The Case of Mai; Daniele Panizza and Jacopo Romoli 9. Grammatical Alternatives and Pragmatic Development; Alan Bale and David Barner

Über Autor(innen)

Luis Alonso-Ovalle, McGill University, Canada
Alan Bale, Concordia University, Canada
David Barner, University of California, San Diego, USA
David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University, USA
Elizabeth Coppock, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University, USA
Clemens Mayr, Center for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany

Paula Menéndez-Benito, University of Goettingen, Germany
Marc Novel, University of Konstanz, Germany
Daniele Panizza, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz, Germany
Jacopo Romoli, Macquarie University, Australia