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Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning : Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horn, Laurence R., Birner, Betty J., Ward, Gregory L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 80.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Laurence R. Horn; Introduction; Where have some of the presuppositions gone?; The top 10 misconceptions about implicature; Inferential relations and noncanonical word order; Sherlock Holmes Was In No Danger; Free choice in Romanian; Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties of even; Discourse particles and the symbiosis of natural language processing and basic research; Saying less and meaning less; I can't seem to fi gure this out; Referring expressions and conversational implicature.