02249nam a22003378a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141040002400170050002100194082001200215245011700227264005200344300005900396336002600455337002600481338003600507500007300543520104500616650001401661650003701675650002501712700004601737700004601783776003501829856004701864CR9781139519328UkCbUP20171019154628.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||120523s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139519328 (ebook)  z9781107033108 (hardback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aP325 b.F75 201300a41522300aFrom Grammar to Meaning :bThe Spontaneous Logicality of Language /cEdited by Ivano Caponigro, Carlo Cecchetto. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (378 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aIn recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal pragmatics has grown tremendously showing that core aspects of language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book, some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning and pave the way for the further development of formal semantics and formal pragmatics. Each chapter investigates various dimensions in which the logical nature of human language manifests itself within a language and/or across languages. Phenomena like bare plurals, free choice items, scalar implicatures, intervention effects, and logical operators are investigated in depth and at times cross-linguistically and/or experimentally. This volume will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. 0aSemantics 0aGrammar, Comparative and general 0aMeaning (Psychology)1 aCaponigro, Ivano,eeditor of compilation.1 aCecchetto, Carlo,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z978110703310840uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519328