Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9780230210752
ISBN-13 : 0230210759
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Book Synopsis Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics by : U. Sauerland

Download or read book Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics written by U. Sauerland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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