Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lee, Chungmin (Editor), Kiefer, Ferenc (Editor), Krifka, Manfred (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 91
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Semantics.; Syntax.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319101064
• ISSN: 0924-4670 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10106-4
• Physical Description: XIX, 415 p. 45 illus. online resource.

A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts. The 19 contr...