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Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

Name: Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
Author: Uli Sauerland
ISBN: 9780230005334

by Uli Sauerland (Editor), Penka Stateva

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Overview

All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. This volume brings together experts from semantics and pragmatics to bring forward the study of interconnections between these three mechanisms. The contributions develop new insights into important empirical phenomena; for example, approximation, free choice, accommodation, and exhaustivity effects.

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About the Author, Uli Sauerland

ULI SAUERLAND is Research Team Leader at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin, Germany. Dr. Sauerland is the author of more than 40 reviewed publications on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interaction.

PENKA STATEVA is a Research Associate at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany. Dr. Stateva's research reflects her interests in the semantics of natural language comparison, plurals, possessives, and the relation between the syntactic and semantic grammar components.