Overview

This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.

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Author:   Elin McCready ,  Katsuhiko Yabushita ,  Kei Yoshimoto
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Volume:   95
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   5.796kg
ISBN:  

9789402403343

ISBN 10:   9402403345
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The Noncooperative Basis of Implicatures.- 3. Meta-Lambda-Calculus: Syntax and Semantics.- 4. Coordinating and Subordinating Binding Dependencies.- 5. What is a universal? On the explanatory potential of evolutionary game theory in linguistics.- 6. Continuation Hierarchy and Quantifier Scope.- 7. Japanese Reported Speech: Towards an account of perspective shift as mixed quotation.- 8. What is Evidence in Natural Language?.- 9. A Categorial Grammar Account of Information Packaging in Japanese.- 10. A Note on the Projection of Appositives.- 11. Towards Computational Non-Associative Lambek Lambda-Calculi for Formal Pragmatics.- 12. On the functions of the Japanese discourse particle yo in declaratives.- 13. A Question of Priority.- 14.Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Dynamic Epistemic Preference Logic.- 15. A Modal Scalar-Presuppositional Analysis of Only.- 16. Floating Quantifiers in Japanese as Adverbial Anaphora.

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