Where semantics meets pragmatics / / edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Ken Turner.

• Superior document: Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface, v. 16
• Author: International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Michigan State University)
• TeilnehmendeR: Heusinger, Klaus von.; Turner, Ken, 1956-
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (549 p.)
• Notes: Contains papers from the workshop "Where semantics meets pragmatics", held as the 1st International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface at Michigan State University in July 2003.

The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics and contributors ensures that each chapter integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, that each finds an adequate division of theoretical labour and that each attempts to design and corroborate an elegant account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. Importantly, each paper in the volume focuses on linguistic detail, not merely abstract discussions of a theoretical nature. Thus each paper makes extensive reference to the semantic and pragmatic facts of English and also other languages. This reference gives each of the proposed analyses a more adequate empirical edge and a sharper theoretical focus. This book is a must for all scholars and students interested in the new and vibrant discipline of semantics-pragmatics and to anyone who is fascinated by the prospect of working beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of linguistics and the philosophy of language. The chapters in this volume originate from a workshop at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, held at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

(By Way of an) Introduction. A First Dialogue on the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, K. von Heusinger, K. Turner -- Semantics - Pragmatics Interface. The Border Wars: A Neo-Gricean Perspective, L.R. Horn -- A 'Just That' Lexical Meaning for Most, M. Ariel -- Pragmatics and Nominal Reference. How to Deny a Presupposition, A. Cohen -- Type Shifting of Entities in Discourse, M. Hegarty -- The Hidden Path of Semantic Content within Pragmatic Context: A Frequency Study of the Definite Article the, R. Mei-Han Low -- Referential Expressions and the Syntax-Semantics (-Pragmatics) Interface, Mayumi Masuko -- Bare Nouns and Generics. General Number and the Semantics and Pragmatics of Indefinite Bare Nouns in Mandarin Chinese, H. Rullmann, A. You -- Tolerating Exceptions with 'Descriptive' and 'in Virtue of' Generics: Two Types of Modality and Reduced Vagueness, Y. Greenberg -- Context and Quantification. Binding Symmetries and Nominal Dualities, A. Branco -- Superlative Quantifiers and the Dynamics of Context Dependence, J. Gutierrez-Rexach -- Information Dependency in Quantificational Subordination, L. Wang, E. McCready, N. Asher -- Information Structure and Underspecification. Semantic Underspecification and the Interpretation of Copular Clauses in English, R. Cann -- Mapping VPs to Restrictors: Anti-Diesing Effects in Mandarin Chinese, D. Hole -- Contrastive Topic/Focus and Polarity in Discourse, Chungmin Lee -- Implicating and Focusing on Lexically Underspecified Information, L. Paris -- Mood and Intensionality. Mood, Propositional Attitude and Metarepresentation in Spanish, A. Ahern -- Futurity in Default Semantics, K.M. Jaszczolt -- Temporal Reference Inside and Outside Propositional Attitudes, H. Kamp.