Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics




Contents
number of pages
Workshop pictureIX
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PrefaceXIII
(By way of an) Introduction: A first dialogue on the semantics-pragmatics interface
Klaus von Heusinger and Ken Turner
1
SEMANTICS - PRAGMATICS INTERFACE
The border wars: A neo-Gricean perspective
Laurence R. Horn
21
A 'just that' lexical meaning for most
Mira Ariel
49
PRAGMATICS AND NOMINAL REFERENCE
How to deny a presupposition
Ariel Cohen
95
Type shifting of entities in discourse
Michael Hegarty
111
The hidden path of semantic content within pragmatic context: A frequency study of the definite article the
Ring Mei-Han Low>
129
Referential expressions and the syntax-semantics (-pragmatics) interface
Mayumi Masuko
157
BARE NOUNS AND GENERICS
General number and the semantics and pragmatics of indefinite bare nouns in Mandarin Chinese
Hotze Rullmann and Aili You
175
Tolerating exceptions with 'descriptive' and 'in virtue of' generics: Two types of modality and reduced vagueness
Yael Greenberg
197
CONTEXT AND QUANTIFICATION
Binding symmetries and nominal dualities
Antonio Branco
225
Superlative quantifiers and the dynamics of context dependence
Javier Gutierrez-Rexach
237
Information dependency in quantificational subordination
Linton Wang, Eric McCready and Nicholas Asher
267
INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND UNDERSPECIFICATION
Semantic underspecification and the interpretation of copular clauses in English
Ronnie Cann
307
Mapping VPs to restrictors: Anti-Diesing effects in Mandarin Chinese
Daniel Hole
337
Contrastive topic/focus and polarity in discourse
Chungmin Lee
387
Implicating and focusing on lexically underspecified information
Luis Paris
421
MOOD AND INTENSIONALITY
Mood, propositional attitude and metarepresentation in Spanish
Aoife Ahern
445
Futurity in default semantics
Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
471
Temporal reference inside and outside propositional attitudes
Hans Kamp
493
Index527