Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Information Structure and Contrastiveness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Contrastive Topic, Contrastive Focus, Alternatives, and Scalar Implicatures

      • Chungmin Lee

      Pages 3-21

   3. Partition Semantics and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic

      • Katsuhiko Yabushita

      Pages 23-45

   4. Deriving the Properties of Structural Focus

      • Katalin É. Kiss

      Pages 47-61

   5. Topic, Focus, and Exhaustive Interpretation

      • Robert van Rooij, Katrin Schulz

      Pages 63-82

   6. The Interpretation of a “Contrast-Marking” Particle

      • Beáta Gyuris

      Pages 83-100

   7. Scalar Implicatures, Presuppositions, and Discourse Particles: Colloquial Russian –to, že, and ved’ in Combination

      • Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova

      Pages 101-119

3. Polarity, Alternatives, Exhaustivity and Implicatures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese

      • Angelika Kratzer, Junko Shimoyama

      Pages 123-143

   3. Free Choice Without Domain Widening

      • Jinyoung Choi

      Pages 145-173

   4. Expletive Negation and Polarity Alternatives

      • Yoonhee Choi, Chungmin Lee

      Pages 175-201

   5. On the Distribution and the Semantics of the Korean Focus Particle –lato

      • Dongsik Lim

      Pages 203-226

   6. Negative Entailment, Positive Implicature and Polarity Items

      • Mingya Liu

      Pages 227-244

   7. Disjunction and Implicatures: Some Notes on Recent Developments

      • Uli Sauerland

      Pages 245-259

   8. Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics

      • Ezra Keshet

      Pages 261-279

4. Quantificational Expressions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281

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   2. Almost et al.: Scalar Adverbs Revisited

      • Laurence R. Horn

      Pages 283-304

   3. Interpretations of Numerals and Structured Contexts

      • Jae-Il Yeom

      Pages 305-320

   4. Focus Particle Mo and Many/Few Implicatures on Numerals in Japanese

      • Chidori Nakamura

      Pages 321-337

A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts. The 19 contributions provide insights on the interplay between semantics and pragmatics. The volume’s reach is cross-linguistic and takes an unorthodox multi-paradigm approach. Languages studied range from European languages including Hungarian and Russian to East Asian languages such as Japanese and Korean, with rich data on focus and discourse particles. This volume contributes to a major area of research in linguistics of the last decade, and provides novel, state-of-the-art views on some of the central topics in linguistic research, and will appeal to an audience of graduate and advanced undergraduate researchers in linguistics, philosophy of language and computational linguistics.

• 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

• Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

  Chungmin Lee

• Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

  Ferenc Kiefer

• Department of General Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Manfred Krifka

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