Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
Author: U. Sauerland
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2007-05-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230210759

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.

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
Author: Shalom Lappin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1119046823

The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary theoretical and computational semantics. Features completely new content from the first edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory Features contributions by leading semanticists, who introduce core areas of contemporary semantic research, while discussing current research Suitable for graduate students for courses in semantic theory and for advanced researchers as an introduction to current theoretical work

The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language

The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
Author: Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 831
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 110849238X

A comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics.

Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice
Author: Richard Breheny
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2010-10-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230282113

The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.

The Oxford Handbook of Negation

The Oxford Handbook of Negation
Author: Viviane Déprez
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198830521

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

Presupposition and the Delimitation of Semantics

Presupposition and the Delimitation of Semantics
Author: Ruth M. Kempson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1975-07-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521207331

In this book, first published in 1975, Dr Kempson argues that previous work on presupposition - whether in philosophy or linguistics - has been mistakenly based on a conflation of two different disciplines: semantics, the study of the meanings assigned to the formal system which constitutes a language, and pragmatics, the study of the use of that system in communication. The first part of the book deals generally with the nature of semantics in linguistic theory and its formal representation within a transformational grammar; Dr Kempson argues against incorporating the relation of presupposition within such a grammar. The second part provides a pragmatic account of the foundations of a theory of communication and its detailed application to the problems raised by presupposition. The book is intended for those studying both philosophy and linguistics and also for those sociolinguists and psychologists with a more general interest in the theory of communication.

Implicatures

Implicatures
Author: Sandrine Zufferey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107125650

Offers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.

Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II

Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II
Author: Emily M. Bender
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303102172X

Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the tasks of both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG). This is because the aims of these fields are to build systems that understand what people mean when they speak or write, and that can produce linguistic strings that successfully express to people the intended content. In order for NLP to scale beyond partial, task-specific solutions, researchers in these fields must be informed by what is known about how humans use language to express and understand communicative intents. The purpose of this book is to present a selection of useful information about semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics, in a way that's accessible to and useful for NLP practitioners with minimal (or even no) prior training in linguistics.