The Role of Data at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 9783110240276, 9783110240269

Table of contents :
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: The semantics-pragmatics interface from linguistic and metalinguistic perspectives
Part One Issues of referentiality
On the definiteness effect in existential sentences: Data and theories
On the semantics and pragmatics of shifted indexicals
Demonstratives and reference to individuated objects vs. reference to properties of objects: A contrastive analysis
Part Two Scalar implicatures and beyond
Two experiments and some suggestions on the meaning of scalars and numerals
Some experimental aspects of optimality theoretic pragmatics
Part Three Pragmatic ways from words to constructions and utterances
The cognitive background of grammaticalization
From syntactic alternations to lexical pragmatics
How lexical-semantic factors influence the verbs' occurrence with implicit direct object arguments in Hungarian
Co-constructing what is said in interaction
Data-gathering methods in research on hyperbole production and interpretation
Index

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The Role of Data at the Semantics–Pragmatics Interface

Mouton Series in Pragmatics 9

Editor Istvan Kecskes

Editorial Board Reinhard Blutner Universiteit van Amsterdam The Netherlands N. J. Enfield Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen The Netherlands

Ferenc Kiefer Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest Hungary Lluı´s Payrato´ University of Barcelona Spain

Raymond W. Gibbs University of California Santa Cruz USA

Franc¸ois Recanati Institut Jean-Nicod Paris France

Laurence R. Horn Yale University USA

John Searle University of California Berkeley USA

Boaz Keysar University of Chicago USA

De Gruyter Mouton

Deirdre Wilson University College London Great Britain

The Role of Data at the Semantics–Pragmatics Interface edited by

Eniko˝ Ne´meth T. Ka´roly Bibok

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN 978-3-11-024026-9 e-ISBN 978-3-11-024027-6 ISSN 1864-6409 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The role of data at the semantics–pragmatics interface / ed. by Eniko˝ Ne´meth T., Ka´roly Bibok. p. cm. ⫺ (Mouton series in pragmatics; 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-11-024026-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Pragmatics. 2. Semantics. 3. Data processing. I. Ne´meth T., Eniko˝, 1964⫺ II. Bibok, Ka´roly. P99.4.P72R65 2010 4011.43⫺dc22 2010034288

Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. ” 2010 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ⬁ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com

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