Overview
- Includes a variety of papers by leading researchers working at the cutting edge of formal semantics and pragmatics
- Contains both foundational and empirical work, all from scholars well-informed both about formal and philosophical work and natural language
- Will be useful for researchers working on a wide range of problems in formal semantics and pragmatics and at their interface
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 95)
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Keywords
- Cross-linguistic approaches
- Floating quantifiers in Japanese
- Information packaging in Japanese
- Japanese reported speech
- Japaness discourse particle yo in declaratives
- Lambda-calculi for formal pragmatics
- Linguistic monads
- Meta-Lambda-Calculus
- Philosophical themes in semantics
- Projectionof appositives
- Speech acts and decisions
- Workings of natural language
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics
Book Subtitle: Japanese and Beyond
Editors: Elin McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita, Kei Yoshimoto
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8813-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8812-0Published: 08 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0334-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8813-7Published: 26 August 2014
Series ISSN: 0924-4662
Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 374
Number of Illustrations: 104 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semantics, Pragmatism