{"product_id":"formal-pragmatics-semantics-pragmatics-preposition-and-focus-hardback-9780631201205","title":"Formal Pragmatics; Semantics, Pragmatics, Preposition, and Focus (Hardback) 9780631201205","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFormal Pragmatics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSemantics, Pragmatics, Preposition, and Focus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNirit Kadmon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631201205, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 January 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.2 x 17.5 x 3.8 cm, 0.925 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a very special book in that it creates formal pragmatics as a field in its own right. There hasn't been anything like it so far. I used to tack on a little bit of pragmatics to my semantics classes, but this will now change.\" \u003ci\u003eAngelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFormal Pragmatics\u003c\/i\u003e addresses issues that are on the borderline of semantics and pragmatics of natural language, from the point of view of a model-theoretic semanticist. This up-to-date resource covers a substantial body of formal work on linguistic phenomena, and presents the way the semantics-pragmatics interface has come to be viewed today.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Preliminaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Dynamic Semantics, Definites and Indefinites:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Discourse Representation Theory and File Change Semantics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. NPs with Numeral Determiners.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Semantics and Pragmatics with Definite NPs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Presupposition:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Presupposition Projection: The Basic Analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Presupposition Projection: Filtering vs. Cancellation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Presupposition Projection: Interlude.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Presupposition Projection: Negation, Shifts in Contextual Assumptions, and Metalinguistic Operators.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Presupposition Projection and Accommodation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. More on PS Projection and Accommodation: PS Projection Below the Level of the Clause.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Presupposition Triggering and the Behavior of Presuppositions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Focus:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Some Basics of the Phonology of Prosody.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Focus and Focus Identification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Focus: Focus-Induced Interpretations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Problems with Focus-Induced Interpretations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Association With Focus: The 'Domain Selection'\/'Free Parameter' Analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Focus: The More Complete Analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Focus-Induced Interpretations: Some Theoretical Choices to be Made.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Focus and Scope.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Complex Focal Structures with 'Contrastive Topics'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Focus and Presupposition: The Focal Presupposition and Its Interaction with Other Presuppositions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316782854424,"sku":"9780631201205","price":110.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631201205.jpg?v=1781825389","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/formal-pragmatics-semantics-pragmatics-preposition-and-focus-hardback-9780631201205","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}