1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996417372103316

Titolo

Journal of law and policy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, N.Y., : Students at Brooklyn Law School

ISSN

2162-4089

Disciplina

342

Soggetti

Public policy (Law) - United States

Ordre public - États-Unis

Public policy (Law)

Law reviews.

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484952303321

Titolo

Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics : Japanese and Beyond / / edited by Elin McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita, Kei Yoshimoto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

94-017-8813-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, , 0924-4662 ; ; 95

Disciplina

401.4

Soggetti

Semantics

Pragmatism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality, and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information



structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics, and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.