Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

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...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Lee, Chungmin (Editor), Kiefer, Ferenc (Editor), Krifka, Manfred (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesStudies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 91
Subjects
Linguistics.
Semantics.
Syntax.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319101064
ISSN0924-4670 ;
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-10106-4
Physical DescriptionXIX, 415 p. 45 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • I. Information Structure and Contrastiveness
  • 1. Contrastive Topic, Contrastive Focus, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures
  • 2. Partition Semantics and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic
  • 3. Deriving the Properties of Structural Focus
  • 4. Topic, Focus, and Exhaustive Interpretation
  • 5. The Interpretation of a "contrast-marking" Particle
  • 6. Scalar Implicatures, Presuppositions, and Discourse Particles: Colloquial Russian -to, že, and ved' in Combination.-Rusanova
  • II. Polarity, Alternatives, Exhaustivity and Implicatures
  • 7. Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese
  • 8. Free Choiceness without Domain-widening
  • 9. Expletive Negation and Polarity Alternatives
  • 10. On the Distribution and the Semantics of the Korean Focus Particle -lato
  • 11. Disjunction and Implicatures: Some Notes on Recent Developments
  • 12. Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics
  • III. Quantificational Expressions
  • 13. Almost et al.: Scalar Adverbs Revisited
  • 14. Interpretations of Numerals and Structured Contexts
  • 15. Scales and Non-scales in (Hebrew) Child Language
  • 16. Negative Implicatum, Positive Implicatum
  • 17. Focus, Contrast, and the Syntax-phonology Interface: The Case of French Cleft-sentences
  • 18. Focus Particle Mo and Many/Few Implicatures on Numerals in Japanese
  • IV. Questions and Speech Acts
  • 19. Negated Polarity Questions as Denegations of Assertions
  • 20. Intonation of Wh- and Yes/No-question in Tokyo Japanese.

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