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Alternatives in Semantics A. Falaus

Alternatives in Semantics By A. Falaus

Alternatives in Semantics by A. Falaus


Summary

This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

Alternatives in Semantics Summary

Alternatives in Semantics by A. Falaus

This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

About A. Falaus

Luis Alonso-Ovalle, McGill University, Canada Alan Bale, Concordia University, Canada David Barner, University of California, San Diego, USA David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin, USA Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University, USA Elizabeth Coppock, Gothenburg University, Sweden Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University, USA Clemens Mayr, Center for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany Paula Menéndez-Benito, University of Goettingen, Germany Marc Novel, University of Konstanz, Germany Daniele Panizza, University of Geneva, Switzerland Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz, Germany Jacopo Romoli, Macquarie University, Australia

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Alternatives in Semantics and Pragmatics; Anamaria F?l?u? 2. A Note on the Derivation of the Epistemic Effect as an Implicature; Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito 3. Free Choice Nominals and Free Choice Disjunction: The Identity Thesis; Gennaro Chierchia 4. A Viability Constraint on Alternatives for Free Choice; Veneeta Dayal 5. On the Consequences of an Alternative Semantics for the Analysis of Intervention Effects; Clemens Mayr 6. Mere-ology; Elizabeth Coppock and David Beaver 7. Sets of Alternatives and Syntactic Movement; Marc Novel and Maribel Romero 8. On the Processing of Alternatives, Exhaustification and Covert Negation: The Case of Mai; Daniele Panizza and Jacopo Romoli 9. Grammatical Alternatives and Pragmatic Development; Alan Bale and David Barner

Additional information

NPB9780230314344
9780230314344
0230314341
Alternatives in Semantics by A. Falaus
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-10-29
270
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