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Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics /

All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sauerland, Uli (Editor), Stateva, Penka (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language, and cognition.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Linguistics, general.
Logic.
Philosophy of Mind.
Semantics.
Linguistics.
Philosophy of mind.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 285 pages)
ISBN:9780230210752
DOI:10.1057/9780230210752