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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 22:10:04
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: From Grammar to Meaning: Caponigro, Cecchetto (eds.)

 


Title: From Grammar to Meaning 
Subtitle: The Spontaneous Logicality of Language 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/grammar-meaning-spontaneous-logicality-language?format=PB 


Editor: Ivano Caponigro
Editor: Carlo Cecchetto

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108790659 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108790659 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108790659 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal pragmatics has grown
tremendously, showing that core aspects of language meaning can be explained
by a few principles. These principles are grounded in the logic that is behind
- and tightly intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book,
some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and
Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning
and pave the way for the further development of formal semantics and formal
pragmatics. Each chapter investigates various dimensions in which the logical
nature of human language manifests itself within a language and/or across
languages. Phenomena like bare plurals, free choice items, scalar
implicatures, intervention effects, and logical operators are investigated in
depth and at times cross-linguistically and/or experimentally. This volume
will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of semantics,
pragmatics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics.

List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction
Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto; Part I. From Grammar to Meaning:
Foundational Issues: 1. Portrait of a semanticist as a young man: Gennaro
Chierchia 1979–1988 Barbara H. Partee; 2. Notes on denotation and denoting
Noam Chomsky; Part II. From Grammar to Meaning: Formal Developments, New
Findings, and Challenges: 3. On the existential force of bare plurals across
languages Veneeta Dayal; 4. Broaden your views, but try to stay focussed: a
missing piece in the polarity system Anamaria Fălăuş; 5. On the free choice
potential of epistemic and deontic modals Maria Aloni and Michael Franke; 6.
Implicatures of modified numerals Clemens Mayr; 7. A scalar semantics for
scalar readings of number words Christopher Kennedy; 8. Presuposition
projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation,
and presupposition strengthening Danny Fox; Part III. From Grammar to Meaning:
Experimental Insights: 9. Unification in child language Stephen Crain and
Rosalind Thornton; 10. Acquisition meets comparison: an investigation of
gradable adjectives Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo and Maria Teresa
Guasti; 11. Intervention in grammar and processing Adriana Belletti and Luigi
Rizzi; Appendix A. Gennaro Chierchia's list of publications; Appendix B.
'Logic and Linguistics: A Marriage of Inconvenience'; References; Index of
names; Index of subjects.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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