Alternatives in Semantics

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.

• pragmatics
• semantic
• semantics

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

  Anamaria Fӑlӑuş

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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