Presuppositions and discourse : essays offered to Hans Kamp /

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Imprint:Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publ, 2010.
Description:xii, 285 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 21
Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 21.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8125663
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Other authors / contributors:Bàˆuerle, Rainer.
Reyle, U., 1955-
Zimmermann, Thomas Ede, 1954-
ISBN:1849507821
9781849507820
Notes:"The conference on presupposition which we convened in Stuttgart in October 2000 ... gave rise to the papers in this collection"--P. xi-xii.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors List
  • Preface
  • 1. Presupposition: An (un)Common Attitude?
  • 2. Pragmatic Strategies
  • 3. Have You Noticed that Your Belly Button Lint Color is Related to the Color of Your Clothing?
  • 4. Accommodation and Reaccommodation in Dialogue
  • 5. Specific Indefinites, Presupposition and Scope
  • 6. Deixis, Binding and Presupposition
  • 7. Become and its Presuppositions
  • 8. Only If an Indefinite is Topical, the Pronoun Picks it Up
  • 9. Good and Bad Transitive Arguments
  • 10. Privative Adjectives: Subsective Plus Coercion