Cleo A. Condoravdi

Descriptions in Context (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions - taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a special type of indefinites that have an interpretation commonly associated with definites. It further argues that the felicity conditions associated with indefinite NP's can vary and develops a more fine-grained theory of novelty within the framework of File Change Semantics. More generally, this work can be seen as providing an empirical argument in favour of a dynamic theory of meaning and against the more traditional truth-conditional theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 213
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315521879
• Artikelnr.: 47140188

Autorenporträt

Cleo A. Condoravdi

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; 2 Bare Plurals and Genericity; 1 Introduction 2
Genericity and the Readings of Bare Plurals 2.1 Genericity 2.2 Bare Plurals
3 The Kind Analysis 3.1 Basic Outline 3.2 Arguments for a Unified Treatment
3.2.1 Bare Plurals Are Unambiguous 3.2.2 Bare Plurals and Indefinite NP's
3.2.3 A Generic Operator and Bare Plurals 3.3 Limits and Limitations of
Uniformity 3.4 Summary 4 The Indefiniteness Analysis 4.1 Basic Outline 4.2
Individual-Level and Stage-Level Predicates 4.3 The Generic Operator 4.3.1
Implicit Domain Restrictions 4.3.2 Modal Dimension 4.4 Conclusion Appendix
Notes; 3 Functional Reading of Bare Plurals; 1 Introduction 2 The
Functional Reading of Bare Plurals 2.1 Initial Observations 2.2 Functional
Reading with Individual-Level Predicates 2.2.1 Genericity and the
Functional Reading 2.2.2 Contextual Restrictions 2.3 Functional Reading
with Stage-Level Predicates 2.4 Other Indefinites 2.5 Excluding a Purely
Pragmatic Account 2.5.1 The Implicature 2.5.2 The Referentiality Approach
2.6 Functional Reading in Quantified Contexts 2.6.1 Dependent Functional
Reading 2.6.2 Quantificational and Modal Subordination 2.7 The
Presupposition of Existence 2.7.1 Simple Cases 2.7.2 Projection of the
Existential Presupposition 2.7.3 Functional Reading with Adverbs of Quality
2.8 Overview 3 An Operator Analysis 3.1 Degenerative Genericity 3.2
Degenerative Genericity and the Functional Reading 3.2.1 Implicit
Contextual Restrictions 3.2.2 Implication of Existence 3.2.3 Scopal
Interaction 3.3 Stage-Level 3.4 Positive Contextual Sensitivity 3.5 Summary
4 Conclusion Notes; 4 Strong and Weak Novelty; 1 Introduction 2 The Dynamic
View on Meaning 2.1 Assertions and Contextual Update 2.2 Presuppositions
and Contextual Admittance 3 The Novelty-Familiarity Theory of Definiteness
3.1 Files as Information States 3.2 Informativeness of Files 3.3 The
Felicity Conditions of Definites and Indefinintes 3.4 The Truth Conditions
for Definites and Indefinintes 4 The Functional reading 4.1 Weakly and
Strongly Novel NP's 4.2 Contextually Salient Functions 4.3 Negative
Contextual Sensitivity 4.4 Strong and Weak Novelty and NP Strength 4.5
Existential Force and Strong vs. Weak Novelty 4.6 Maximality 4.7
Consequences of the Existential Presupposition 4.7.1 Positive Contextual
Sensitivity 4.7.2 Dependent Functional Reading 5 Conclusion Notes;
Bibliography; Index