Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics Japanese and Beyond
This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Noncooperative Basis of Implicatures
- 3. Meta-Lambda-Calculus: Syntax and Semantics
- 4. Coordinating and Subordinating Binding Dependencies
- 5. What is a universal? On the explanatory potential of evolutionary game theory in linguistics
- 6. Continuation Hierarchy and Quantifier Scope
- 7. Japanese Reported Speech: Towards an account of perspective shift as mixed quotation
- 8. What is Evidence in Natural Language?
- 9. A Categorial Grammar Account of Information Packaging in Japanese
- 10. A Note on the Projection of Appositives
- 11. Towards Computational Non-Associative Lambek Lambda-Calculi for Formal Pragmatics
- 12. On the functions of the Japanese discourse particle yo in declaratives
- 13. A Question of Priority
- 14.Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Dynamic Epistemic Preference Logic
- 15. A Modal Scalar-Presuppositional Analysis of Only
- 16. Floating Quantifiers in Japanese as Adverbial Anaphora