Over the past forty years, scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on
the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different …

This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of'meaning as use'with the traditional
semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann …

BY Page 1 ASSOCIATION WITH FOCUS A Dissertation Presented BY Mats Edward Rooth
Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts in partial fulfillment of the …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

Current investigators of words, sentences, and other language materials almost never
provide statistical evidence that their findings generalize beyond the specific sample of …

The term PRESUPPOSITION is an honorable one, with a respectable, if controversial,
history in philosophy and philosophical logic. Such important figures as Frege and Strawson …

In this chapter we will examine the syntax and semantic of two subclasses of adverbs, each
of which contain PSIs. The approach taken here is an extension of the theory of Thomason …

Even though the relevance of non-truth-conditional notions like'topic'and'focus' in sentence
structure and interpretation has long been'recognized, there is little agreement on the exact …

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal
pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language …

o. In spite of the bumper crop of papers on presuppositions in recent books and journals,
presupposition itself still remains a very unclear concept.'There are two basic types of …