Contrastiveness in information structure, alternatives and scalar implicatures. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chungmin Lee, Ferenc Kiefer, Manfred Krifka, editors.
• Editors: Lee, Chungmin; Kiefer, Ferenc; Krifka, Manfred
• Contents: I. Information Structure and Contrastiveness -- 1. Contrastive Topic, Contrastive Focus, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures -- 2. Partition Semantics and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic -- 3. Deriving the Properties of Structural Focus -- 4. Topic, Focus, and Exhaustive Interpretation -- 5. The Interpretation of a "contrast-marking" Particle -- 6. Scalar Implicatures, Presuppositions, and Discourse Particles: Colloquial Russian -to, že, and ved' in Combination.-Rusanova -- II. Polarity, Alternatives, Exhaustivity and Implicatures -- 7. Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese -- 8. Free Choiceness without Domain-widening -- 9. Expletive Negation and Polarity Alternatives -- 10. On the Distribution and the Semantics of the Korean Focus Particle -lato -- 11. Disjunction and Implicatures: Some Notes on Recent Developments -- 12. Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics -- III. Quantificational Expressions -- 13. Almost et al.: Scalar Adverbs Revisited -- 14. Interpretations of Numerals and Structured Contexts -- 15. Scales and Non-scales in (Hebrew) Child Language -- 16. Negative Implicatum, Positive Implicatum -- 17. Focus, Contrast, and the Syntax-phonology Interface: The Case of French Cleft-sentences -- 18. Focus Particle Mo and Many/Few Implicatures on Numerals in Japanese -- IV. Questions and Speech Acts -- 19. Negated Polarity Questions as Denegations of Assertions -- 20. Intonation of Wh- and Yes/No-question in Tokyo Japanese.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (435 pages)
• Subjects: 401.43; Semantics; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Linguistics; Semantics; Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319101064; 3319101064
• Related ISBNs: 9783319101057; 3319101056
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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