18.206, Books: Ling Theories/Pragmatics/Semantics/Syntax: Birner, Ward (Eds)

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Date: 18-Jan-2007
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Birner, Ward (Eds) 

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:48:54
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Birner, Ward (Eds) 

Title: Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning 
Subtitle: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R.
Horn

Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 80  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2080 

Editor: Betty J Birner
Editor: Gregory Ward

Hardback: ISBN: 9789027230904 Pages: 350 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027230904 Pages: 350 Price: U.S. $ 150.00

Abstract:

One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic
theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and
Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of
that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This
volume in honor of Horn brings together the best of current work at the
semantics/pragmatics boundary from a neo-Gricean perspective. Featuring the
contributions of 22 leading researchers, it includes papers on implicature
(Kent Bach), inference (Betty Birner), presupposition (Barbara Abbott),
lexical semantics (Georgia Green, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Steve Kleinedler &
Randall Eggert), negation (Pauline Jacobson, Frederick Newmeyer, Scott
Schwenter), polarity (Donka Farkas, Anastasia Giannakidou, Michael Israel),
implicit variables (Greg Carlson & Gianluca Storto), definiteness (Barbara
Partee), reference (Ellen Prince, Andrew Kehler & Gregory Ward), and logic
(Jerrold Sadock, Francis Jeffry Pelletier & Andrew Hartline). These
original papers represent not only a fitting homage to Larry Horn, but also
an important contribution to semantic and pragmatic theory. 

Table of contents

Introduction ix-xi  

Where have some of the presuppositions gone? 
Barbara Abbott 1-20  

The top 10 misconceptions about implicature 
Kent Bach 21-30  

Inferential relations and noncanonical word order 
Betty J. Birner 31-51  

Sherlock Holmes Was In No Danger 
Greg N. Carlson and Gianluca Storto 53-70  

Free choice in Romanian 
Donka F. Farkas 71-94  

Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties of even 
Anastasia Giannakidou 95-116  

Discourse particles and the symbiosis of natural language processing and
basic research 
Georgia M. Green 117-135  

Saying less and meaning less 
Michael Israel 137-156  

I can't seem to figure this out 
Pauline Jacobson 157-175  

Referring expressions and conversational implicature 
Andrew Kehler and Gregory Ward 177-193  

Indexi-lexicography 
Steve Kleinedler and Randall Eggert 195-215  

Why defining is seldom 'just semantics': Marriage and marriage 
Sally McConnell-Ginet 217-240  

Negation and modularity 
Frederick J. Newmeyer 241-261  

A note on Mandarin possessives, demonstratives, and definiteness 
Barbara H. Partee 263-280  

On a homework problem of Larry Horn's 
Francis Jeffry Pelletier and Andrew Hartline 281-293  

Impersonal pronouns in French and Yiddish: Semantic reference vs. discourse
reference 
Ellen F. Prince 295-315  

Motors and switches: An exercise in syntax and pragmatics 
Jerrold M. Sadock 317-325  

Fine-tuning Jespersen's Cycle 
Scott A. Schwenter 327-344  

Index  345-350 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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