Overview
- Provides insights on the interplay between semantics and pragmatics
- Cross-linguistic and multi-paradigm approach coupled with rich data
- Novel, state-of-the-art views on central topics in linguistic research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 91)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Information Structure and Contrastiveness
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Polarity, Alternatives, Exhaustivity and Implicatures
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Quantificational Expressions
Keywords
- Contrastive topic and focus
- Disjunction and implicatures
- Indeterminate pronouns
- Interpretations of numerals and structured cont...
- Negated polarity questions
- Positive polarity items PPIs
- Scalar adverbs
- Scalar implicatures with alternative semantics
- Semantics and the pragmatics of contracstive topics
- Syntax-phonology interface
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures
Editors: Chungmin Lee, Ferenc Kiefer, Manfred Krifka
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10106-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10105-7Published: 01 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79168-5Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10106-4Published: 11 January 2017
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 415
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations