Whole-for-part metonymy, classification, and groundingSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 38 - Trang 1-29 - 2015
Alexandra Arapinis
Since the early 1980s, metonymy has progressively gained central stage in linguistic investigations. The advent of cognitive linguistics marked a new turn in the study of this trope conceived, not as a deviation from semantic conventions (contra classical rhetorical theories), but as a phenomenon rooted in non-language-specific mechanisms of conceptualization of the world. Acknowledging that meton...... hiện toàn bộ
Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferencesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 46 - Trang 1161-1217 - 2023
Yasutada Sudo
This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents. Given the general consensus that a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires discourse referents separately from the truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected that the anaphoric information that discourse referents carry play a role in the computation of scalar...... hiện toàn bộ
Semantics and the objects of assertionSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 33 - Trang 355-380 - 2011
Dilip Ninan
This paper is about the relationship between two questions: the question of what the objects of assertion are and the question of how best to theorise about ‘shifty’ phenomena like modality and tense. I argue that the relationship between these two questions is less direct than is often supposed. I then explore the consequences of this for a number of debates in the philosophy of language.
Plurality and Temporal ModificationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 29 - Trang 251-276 - 2006
Ron Artstein, Nissim Francez
A semantics with plural entitles and plural times accounts for cumulative relations between plural arguments and temporal expressions. The semantics equips nominal, verbal and sentential meanings with temporal context variables and treats temporal modifiers as temporal generalized quantifiers; cumulative conjunction, however, takes place at types lower than generalized quantifiers. The mediation o...... hiện toàn bộ