Logic in Grammar
Subtitle: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780199697977
Subjects: Grammar, comparative and general; Logic
Description: In a fundamental investigation of language and human reasoning Gennaro Chierchia looks at how syntactic and inferential processes interact through the study of polarity sensitive and free choice items. He reformulates the semantics of focus and scope and the pragmatics of implicature as part of the recursive semantic system.