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Sebe and vpolne sebe: semantics, pragmatics, functions
Linguists are particularly interested in observing lexical units, reflecting the picture of the world of a modern person. It allows to visually study fashionable words and expressions as indicators of the linguistic taste of the era. The relevance of the
Sergei G. Vorkachev
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SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF THE ELIMINATED LACUNAE
Elimination of lacunae is associated with the need to convey semantic content that has not found a single-word expression in the language. But elimination also turns out to be necessary for pragmatic reasons.
Irina V. Belyaeva, Oksana M. Akay
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L’implicite et l’interface sémantique-pragmatique : où passe la frontière ?
The semantics-pragmatics interface issue appeared at the beginning of the Gricean turn, based on the concepts of non-natural meaning and implicature. The main issue is the criteria defining linguistic meaning from intended speaker’s meaning.
Jacques Moeschler
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The semantics and pragmatics of plurals
This paper addresses the semantics and pragmatics of singular and plural nominals in languages that manifest a binary morphological number distinction within this category.
Henriëtte de Swart, Donka Farkas
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Semantics and Pragmatics of Bridge Language
No abstract.
Henning Nølke
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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
Sabine Iatridou (2000) and Katrin Schulz (2014) defend accounts of the past tense in subjunctive conditionals according to which the past tense has a modal reading that excludes the world of utterance or some set of epistemically possible worlds. I argue
John Mackay
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Bishop Sentences and Donkey Cataphora: A Response to Barker and Shan
Some issues are raised concerning the treatment of donkey cataphora and bishop sentences in Barker & Shan 2008.
Paul David Elbourne
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A note on presupposition accommodation
The proviso problem arises for theories of presupposition whose projection component fails to derive certain presuppositions that are contributed by their constituent sentences.
Roni Katzir, Raj Singh
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The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order: An experimental study
We present evidence from acceptability judgment experiments that there is systematic prosodic givenness marking in Czech in that discourse-salient elements avoid sentence stress, contra the claim in Kučerová (2007, 2012) that givenness is marked only ...
Radek Šimík, Marta Wierzba
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How Much Do We Learn from Addresses? On the Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Addressing Systems
An address is a specification that refers to a unique location on Earth. While there has been a considerable amount of research on the syntactic structure of addressing systems in order to evaluate and improve their quality, aspects of semantics and ...
Ali Javidaneh +2 more
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