Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech [electronic resource] /edited by Reinaldo Elugardo, Robert J. Stainton.
by Elugardo, Reinaldo [editor.]; Stainton, Robert J [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: En]Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy: 81Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.Description: VII, 262 p. online resource.ISBN: 9781402023019.Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Linguistics -- Philosophy | Artificial intelligence | Semantics | Philosophy | Philosophy of Language | Theoretical Languages | Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) | SemanticsDDC classification: 149.94 | 410.1 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The Nature and Scope of Ellipsis -- Against Reconstruction in Ellipsis -- The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives -- Nonsententials in Minimalism -- A Note on Alleged Cases of Nonsentential Assertion -- On the Interpretation and Performance of Non-Sentential Assertions -- Non-Sentences, Implicature, and Success in Communication -- The Link between Sentences and ‘Assertion’: An Evolutionary Accident? -- Implications -- Knowledge by Acquaintance and Meaning in Isolation -- Co-Extensive Theories and Unembedded Definite Descriptions -- The Ellipsis Account of Fiction-Talk -- Quinean Interpretation and Anti-Vernacularism -- Saying What You Mean: Unarticulated Constituents and Communication.
The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? Each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals specifically with nonsentential speech. Within the first main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issue of whether nonsentential speech falls within the scope of ellipsis or not; within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. This book is unique in that it offers the reader; Papers on the boundary between philosophy and linguistics, Applications of advanced work in theoretical linguistics to traditional philosophical questions, It is the only volume of papers ever published on sub-sentential speech, Major contribution to our understanding of ellipsis in natural language, presently a central topic in syntactic theory. This book is of interest to professionals and advanced graduate students in the fields of philosophy of language, semantics, and syntax.
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