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Title

Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics / Ruth M. Kempson.

Author

Kempson, Ruth M.

Publication

Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1975.

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Description

xi, 235 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 15

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in linguistics 15.

Subject

• Presupposition (Logic)
• Semantics

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis, London, 1973.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 222-230.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION : THE LINGUISTIC FRAMEWORK -- General conditions on a semantic theory -- The relation between syntax and semantics -- On the nature of semantic features and the semantic component -- On the form of semantic features -- On the nature of the projection rules -- Negation -- The scope of negation -- Rules of semantic Interpretation operating on surface structures -- THE BASIS OF SEMANTICS: A DEFINITION OF MEANING -- On Katz' and Bierwisch's definition of semantic marker -- Meaning and reference -- Sentence meaning and truth -- Component-based semantics and model-theoretic semantics: a linguist's defence -- Reference and lexical entries -- The limitation of a truth-based theory of semantics: a criticism and a defence -- The relation between sentence and Statement -- Performative verbs, imperatives, and questions -- a suggested solution -- PRESUPPOSITION: TWO DEFINITIONS -- Entailment v. presupposition -- Speaker-presuppositions: presupposition v. assertion -- Presuppositions of Statements and sentences -- PRESUPPOSITION: ITS USE BY LINGUISTS -- A pragmatic concept of presupposition: the Lakoffs -- Lexical presuppositions: Fillmore -- Factive verbs: Kiparsky and Kiparsky, and Karttunen -- The problem of pretence -- Filtering: the problem of the connectives -- Some remaining examples of logically defined presupposition: Keenan -- THE PROBLEM OF REFERENCE AND THE SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION OF NOUN PHRASES
• -- The referring properties of definite noun phrases: entailment or presupposition? -- The problem of ambiguity -- Assertion: Strawson v. Russell -- Anaphora: the problem of coreference -- Definite noun phrases and the implication of uniqueness -- THE FORMALISATION OF THE SOLUTION -- The syntactic relation between definite and indefinite noun phrases -- Definite and indefinite noun phrases: a preliminary formulation of their syntactic and semantic properties -- Inter-sentence relations -- which solution? -- The formulation of factive complements -- TOWARDS A PRAGMATIC THEORY -- Grice's theory of meaning -- A definition of speaker's meaning: 'meaningnn' -- The Co-operative Principle -- On criticisms of Grice -- Speaker's meaning and non-indicative utterances -- The infinite regress problem -- The vacuity of the maxims -- THE APPLICATION OF GRICE'S THEORY -- The concept of relevance -- The maxim of quantity: some preliminaries -- The maxim of quantity and the Pragmatic Universe of Discourse -- The Pragmatic Universe of Discourse -- The maxim of quantity II -- Exclamations and the requirement of informativeness -- The pragmatic Interpretation of definite noun phrases -- The pragmatic interpretation of factive complements -- The assertion-presupposition contrast -- Speaker-presupposition, stress assignment and the maxim of relation -- And and the maxim of manner -- Even remains -- Illocutionary force: its Status within pragmatics -- PRAGMATICS AND THE COMPETENCE-PERFORMANCE -- DISTINCTION -- Bibliography -- Index

ISBN

0521207339 0521099382

LCCN

^^^74025078^//r76

OCLC

1501936

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