Alternatives in Semantics [electronic resource] /
Fӑlӑuş, Anamaria.editor.
This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: Alternatives in Semantics and Pragmatics; Anamaria Falaus -- 2. A Note on the Derivation of the Epistemic Effect as an Implicature; Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Mene;ndez-Benito -- 3. Free Choice Nominals and Free Choice Disjunction: The Identity Thesis; Gennaro Chierchia -- 4. A Viability Constraint on Alternatives for Free Choice; Veneeta Dayal -- 5. On the Consequences of an Alternative Semantics for the Analysis of Intervention Effects; Clemens Mayr -- 6. Mere-ology; Elizabeth Coppock and David Beaver -- 7. Sets of Alternatives and Syntactic Movement; Marc Novel and Maribel Romero -- 8. On the Processing of Alternatives, Exhaustification and Covert Negation: The Case of Mai; Daniele Panizza and Jacopo Romoli -- 9. Grammatical Alternatives and Pragmatic Development; Alan Bale and David Barner.
This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.
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