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Author:   Ken Peter Turner ,  Laurence Horn
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Edition:   Approx. XVIII, 342 Pp. ed.
Volume:   34
Weight:   0.787kg
ISBN:  

9789004341999

ISBN 10:   9004341994
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   05 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

An Underspecified Preface  Ken Turner and Larry Horn Part 1 On the Landscape of Negation 1 An (Abridged) Atlas of Negation: Polar Landscape in an Era of Climate Change  Larry Horn 2 Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing: More on the Syntactic Nature of Neg Raising  Chris Collins and Paul Postal 3 Presuppositions, Negation, and Existence  Barbara Abbott 4 More Ado about nothing: On the Typology of Negative Indefinites  Johan van der Auwera and Lauren van Alsenoy Part 2 On Sense-Generality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Landscape 5 Distinguishing Ambiguity from Underspecificity  Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore 6 Metaphor, Minimalism, and Semantic Generality: Seeing Things in Context  Michiel Leezenberg 7 A Radically Pragmatic Account of Number Words and the Reversibility of Scales  Jerrold Sadock 8 Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and Logic  David Braun Part 3 On Grammar, Inference, and Truth 9 Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn  Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann 10 Illusory Inferences in a Question-Based Theory of Reasoning  Philipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas 11 A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore’s Paradox  Jack Woods 12 Remarks on Davidson’s Polymorphous Concept of Truth and Its Role in a Theory of Meaning  Ken Turner Index

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Ken Turner is Principal Lecturer in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language at the University of Brighton. He is the editor of The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View (CRiSPI 1) and Making Semantics Pragmatic (CRiSPI 24) as well as co-editor, with Klaus von Heusinger, of Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics (CRiSPI 16) and co-editor, with Marina Sbisà, of Pragmatics of Speech Actions (HoP2). Laurence Horn is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Yale. He is the author or (co-)editor of six books and over 100 articles on pragmatic theory, negation, lexical semantics, and linguistic variation, including A Natural History of Negation (1989/2001). Contributors are: Barbara Abbott, David Braun, Ronnie Cann, Chris Collins, Laurence Horn, Ruth Kempson, Philipp Koralus, Michiel Leezenberg, Ernie Lepore, Salvador Mascarenhas, Paul Postal, Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone, Jerrold Sadock, Ken Turner, Lauren van Alsenoy, Johan van der Auwera and Jack Woods.

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