Approaches to meaning : composition, values, and interpretation /

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The basic claims of traditional truth-conditional semantics are that the semantic interpretation of a sentence is connected to the truth of that sentence in a situation, and that the meaning of the sentence is derived compositionally from the semantic values meaning of its constituents and the rules...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gutzmann, Daniel (Editor), Köpping, Jan (Editor), Meier, Cécile (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Series:Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface.
Subjects:
Semantics.
Compositionality (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Conditionals.
Sémantique.
Compositionnalité (Linguistique)
Conditionnel.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Conditionals
Semantics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; List of Contributers; Composition, Values, and Interpretation (Gutzmann, Köpping, and Meier); Part 1. Composition; Does Context Change? (Kupffer); The Live Principle of Compositionality (Dekker); Operators for Definition by Paraphrase (Rooth); Part 2. Values; Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? More on Missing (Sæbø); Information, Issues, and Attention (Ciardelli, Groenendijk, and Roelofsen); A Truth-conditional Account of Free-choice Disjunction (Forbes); Being Tolerant about Identity? (van Rooij).
  • The Property Paradox in (Not So Plain) English (Schlenker)Part 3. Interpretation; Dear Ede! (Eckardt); On the Meaning of Fictional Texts (Bauer and Beck); Notes on Disagreement (Klein and Kracht); Was glaubt EDE, wer der Mörder ist? On D-trees, Embedded Foci, and Indirect Scope Marking (Zimmermann); A New Type of Informative Tautology: Für Unbefugte Betreten Verboten! (Krifka); Index.

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