Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values by Robert J Stainton
Are natural languages genuinely compositional? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be retained?-
Mathematical Methods in Linguistics
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Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics
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Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns and Count Nouns
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Question-orientedness and the Semantics of Clausal Complementation
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The Formal Complexity of Natural Language
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Indian Philosophy of Language
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Interpreted Languages and Compositionality
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Ambiguities in Intensional Contexts
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Text, Time, and Context
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Quantificational Topics
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Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech
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Aspect in English
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Tense, Attitudes, and Scope
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Temporal Logic
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Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Semantics and the Lexicon
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The Language of Propositions and Events
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Locality in WH Quantification
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Pluralities
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Plurality and Quantification
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Control and Grammar
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Logic and Lexicon
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Fact Proposition Event
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Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy
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Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content
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Marcus Contextual Grammars
Robert J. Stainton is Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He has published some 40 articles on various topics in linguistics and philosophy, and has authored or edited eight previous books, including Philosophical Perspectives on Language (1996), Knowledge and Mind (2000) and is co-editor of Philosophy and Linguistics (1999).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781402083099 |
| ISBN 10 | 1402083092 |
| Title | Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values |
| Author | Robert J Stainton |
| Series | Studies In Linguistics And Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2008-11-25 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
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