Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are
fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction …

First Published in 1998. This work is an unrevised version of my 1996 University of
California, Santa Cruz Ph. D. dissertation. The only changes that have been made are …

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS IN LINGUISTICS
edited by LAURENCE HORN YALE UNIVERSITY A GARLAND SERIES Page 6 Page 7 THE …

Studies of linguistic politeness have traditionally assumed a Gricean norm-based approach
to communication. On this view, instances of the use of polite forms and/or strategies …

The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be
universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives …

In this paper I provide an insight into Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory, an analysis of
its situation after ten years, and comments on the theory and its wide implications for the …

In most languages, sentences can be classified on the basis of morphological or syntactic
features into a small number of sentence types. According to a survey of 40 typological …

The commonly-held view that negative statements are pragmatically less favoured and
convey less information than positive ones is challenged through an analysis of the …

A conception of the semantics/pragmatics distinction as coextensive with a distinction
between two types of cognitive process, decoding and inference, is defended. The main …

The purpose of these introductory remarks is to complement the following case studies by
Ferenc Kiefer on majd 'later (on), sooner or later', Attila Péteri on hadd 'let', and Ildikó Vaskó …