24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory, Fall 2004

Formal theories of context-dependency, presupposition, implicature, context-change, focus and topic. Special emphasis on the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics. Applications to the analysis of quantification, definiteness, presupposition projection, conditionals and modality, anaphor...

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Main Author: Von Fintel, Kai
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Learning Object
Language:en-US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41937