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Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Volume 17.

The study of questions and answers is challenging for various fields of theoretical linguistics, logic, analytical philosophy, and more recently computer science. Research into questions and answers addresses old and raises new and important questions about the semantics / pragmatics interface and a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aloni, Maria
Otros Autores: Dekker, Paul, Butler, Alastair
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington : Emerald Group Pub., 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions; Chapter 2 The Logic of Interrogation; Chapter 3 Axiomatizing Groenendijk's Logic of Interrogation; Chapter 4 Optimal Inquisitive Discourse; Chapter 5 Only Updates. On the Dynamics of the Focus Particle Only; Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Topic and Focus; Chapter 7 Nobody (Anything) Else; Chapter 8 Exhaustivity, Questions and Plurals in Update Semantics; Chapter 9 Only: Meaning and Implicatures; Chapter 10 Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning; Chapter 11 Nuclear Accent, Focus, and Bidirectional OT.
  • Chapter 12 Counting (on) Usage Information: WH Questions at the Syntax-Semantics InterfaceChapter 13 Nuclear Rises in Update Semantics; Bibliography; Index.