Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

By Uli Sauerland

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349282065
• ISBN13: 9781349282067
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"