Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy by Sam Alxatib
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Only and its inferences.- Chapter 3. The positive morpheme and its interaction with only.- Chapter 4. The proposal.- Chapter 5. Only if, its interaction with POS, and its scalar presupposition.- Chapter 6. Conclusions and extensions.-
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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Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values
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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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Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content
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Marcus Contextual Grammars
Sam Alxatib is assistant professor in the linguistics department at the CUNY Graduate Center. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, an M.A. in Linguistics from Simon Fraser University, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is interested in formal semantics, formal pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface, and has worked on issues of focus semantics, scalar implicature and exhaustification, gradability and vagueness, the semantics of tense, aspect, and modality, and (anti-)presupposition.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783030378080 |
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| Title | Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy |
| Author | Sam Alxatib |
| Series | Studies In Linguistics And Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Year published | 2021-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 186 |
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