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Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

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Editors:
  1. Chungmin Lee

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

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  2. Ferenc Kiefer

    1. Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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  3. Manfred Krifka

    1. Department of General Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

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

  • Topics: Semantics, Syntax

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