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Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics

Japanese and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Elin McCready

    1. Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Katsuhiko Yabushita

    1. Department of English, Naruto University of Education, Naruto, Japan

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  3. Kei Yoshimoto

    1. Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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  • Includes a variety of papers by leading researchers working at the cutting edge of formal semantics and pragmatics
  • Contains both foundational and empirical work, all from scholars well-informed both about formal and philosophical work and natural language
  • Will be useful for researchers working on a wide range of problems in formal semantics and pragmatics and at their interface
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 95)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Elin McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita, Kei Yoshimoto
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Non Cooperative Basis of Implicatures

    • Nicholas Asher
    Pages 9-30

  4. Meta-Lambda Calculus and Linguistic Monads

    • Daisuke Bekki, Moe Masuko
    Pages 31-64

  5. Coordinating and Subordinating Binding Dependencies

    • Alastair Butler
    Pages 65-83

  6. What is a Universal? On the Explanatory Potential of Evolutionary Game Theory in Linguistics

    • Gerhard Jäger
    Pages 85-103

  7. Continuation Hierarchy and Quantifier Scope

    • Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan
    Pages 105-134

  8. Japanese Reported Speech: Towards an Account of Perspective Shift as Mixed Quotation

    • Emar Maier
    Pages 135-154

  9. What is Evidence in Natural Language?

    • Elin McCready
    Pages 155-180

  10. A Categorial Grammar Account of Information Packaging in Japanese

    • Hiroaki Nakamura
    Pages 181-203

  11. A Note on the Projection of Appositives

    • Rick Nouwen
    Pages 205-222

  12. Towards Computational Non-associative Lambek Lambda-Calculi for Formal Pragmatics

    • Norihiro Ogata
    Pages 223-250

  13. On the Functions of the Japanese Discourse Particle yo in Declaratives

    • David Y. Oshima
    Pages 251-271

  14. A Question of Priority

    • Robert van Rooij, Katrin Schulz
    Pages 273-293

  15. Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Dynamic Epistemic Preference Logic

    • Satoru Suzuki
    Pages 295-324

  16. A Modal Scalar-Presuppositional Analysis of Only

    • Katsuhiko Yabushita
    Pages 325-341

  17. Floating Quantifiers in Japanese as Adverbial Anaphora

    • Kei Yoshimoto, Masahiro Kobayashi
    Pages 343-374

  18. Correction to: Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics

    • Elin McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita, Kei Yoshimoto
    Pages C1-C1
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About this book

This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

    Elin McCready

  • Department of English, Naruto University of Education, Naruto, Japan

    Katsuhiko Yabushita

  • Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Kei Yoshimoto

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics

  • Book Subtitle: Japanese and Beyond

  • Editors: Elin McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita, Kei Yoshimoto

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8813-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8812-0Published: 08 September 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0334-3Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8813-7Published: 26 August 2014

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 374

  • Number of Illustrations: 104 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Semantics, Pragmatism

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