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Alternatives in Semantics

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Anamaria Fӑlӑuş

    1. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Alternatives in Semantics and Pragmatics

    • Anamaria Fӑlӑuş
    Pages 1-35

  3. A Note on the Derivation of the Epistemic Effect of Spanish Algún as an Implicature

    • Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Paula Menéndez-Benito
    Pages 36-49

  4. Free Choice Nominals and Free Choice Disjunction: the Identity Thesis

    • Gennaro Chierchia
    Pages 50-87

  5. A Viability Constraint on Alternatives for Free Choice

    • Veneeta Dayal
    Pages 88-122

  6. Consequences of an Alternative Semantics for the Analysis of Intervention Effects

    • Clemens Mayr
    Pages 123-149

  7. Mere-ology

    • Elizabeth Coppock, David Beaver
    Pages 150-173

  8. Variable Binding and Sets of Alternatives

    • Maribel Romero, Marc Novel
    Pages 174-208

  9. On the Processing of Alternatives, Exhaustification and Covert Negation: the Case of Mai

    • Daniele Panizza, Jacopo Romoli
    Pages 209-237

  10. Grammatical Alternatives and Pragmatic Development

    • Alan Bale, David Barner
    Pages 238-266

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 267-270
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This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain

    Anamaria Fӑlӑuş

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Luis Alonso-Ovalle, McGill University, Canada Alan Bale, Concordia University, Canada David Barner, University of California, San Diego, USA David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin, USA Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University, USA Elizabeth Coppock, Gothenburg University, Sweden Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University, USA Clemens Mayr, Center for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany Paula Menéndez-Benito, University of Goettingen, Germany Marc Novel, University of Konstanz, Germany Daniele Panizza, University of Geneva, Switzerland Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz, Germany Jacopo Romoli, Macquarie University, Australia

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