Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics

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

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.

• Cross-linguistic approaches
• Floating quantifiers in Japanese
• Information packaging in Japanese
• Japanese reported speech
• Japaness discourse particle yo in declaratives
• Lambda-calculi for formal pragmatics
• Linguistic monads
• Meta-Lambda-Calculus
• Philosophical themes in semantics
• Projectionof appositives
• Speech acts and decisions
• Workings of natural language

• 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

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