Questions in Dynamic Semantics

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-08-045347-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface

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 about the dynamics of interpretation. This book brings together current work on the topic as it has been developed in Amsterdam, and congenial academic sites, over the past 15 years. Amsterdam is one of the breeding grounds for the formal study of logic and language, for dynamic semantics, and for the study of questions and answers.

- Covers the major issues of pragmatic/semantic investigation, including logical relations, context dependence, information structure, and more
- Illustrates how semantic/pragmatic stance can be used for problems in other areas of linguistic theorising

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aloni, Maria

Butler, Alastair

Dekker, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions I Update Semantics
2 The Logic of Interrogation
3 Axiomatizing Groenendijks Logic of Interrogation
4 Optimal Inquisitive Discourse II Topic and Focus
5 Only Updates. On the Dynamics of the Focus Particle Only
6 The Dynamics of Topic and Focus
7 Nobody (Anything) Else III Implicatures and Exhaustiveness
8 Exhaustivity, Questions and Plurals in Update Semantics
9 Only: Meaning and Implicatures
10 Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning IV Intonation and Syntax
11 Nuclear Accent, Focus, and Bidirectional OT
12 Counting (on) Usage Information
13 Nuclear Rises in Update Semantics