Logic in grammar : polarity, free choice, and intervention /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ;
2. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Oxford linguistics"--Cover |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (481 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191643606 0191643602 9780191765971 019176597X 1299861504 9781299861503 0199697973 9780199697977 0199697981 9780199697984 |