Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Series, Vol. 91

I. Information Structure and Contrastiveness.- 1. Contrastive Topic, Contrastive Focus, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures by Chungmin Lee.- 2. Partition Semantics and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic by Katsuhiko Yabushita.- 3. Deriving the Properties of Structural Focus by Katalin É. Kiss.- 4. Topic, Focus, and Exhaustive Interpretation by Robert van Rooij.- 5. The Interpretation of a “contrast-marking” Particle by Gyuris, Beáta.- 6. Scalar Implicatures, Presuppositions, and Discourse Particles: Colloquial Russian –to,že, and ved’ in Combination by Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova.- II. Polarity, Alternatives, Exhaustivity and Implicatures.- 7. Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese by Angelika Kratzer and Junko Shimoyama.- 8. Free Choiceness without Domain-widening by Jinyoung Choi.- 9. Expletive Negation and Polarity Alternatives by Yoonhee Choi and Chungmin Lee.- 10. On the Distribution and the Semantics of the Korean Focus Particle –lato by Dongsik Lim.- 11. Disjunction and Implicatures: Some Notes on Recent Developments by Uli Sauerland.- 12. Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics by Ezra Keshet.- III. Quantificational Expressions.- 13. Almost et al.:Scalar Adverbs Revisited by Laurence R. Horn.- 14. Interpretations of Numerals and Structured Contexts by Jae-Il Yeom.- 15. Scales and Non-scales in (Hebrew) Child Language by Leah R. Paltiel-Gedalyovich & Jeannette Schaeffer.- 16. Negative Implicatum, Positive Implicatum by Mingya Liu.- 17. Focus, Contrast, and the Syntax-phonology Interface: The Case of French Cleft-sentences by Fatima Hamlaoui.- 18. Focus Particle Mo and Many/Few Implicatures on Numerals in Japanese by Chidori Nakamura.- IV. Questions and Speech Acts.- 19. Negated Polarity Questions as Denegations of Assertions by Manfred Krifka.- 20. Intonation of Wh- and Yes/No-question in Tokyo Japanese by Shinichiro Ishihara

Provides insights on the interplay between semantics and pragmatics

Cross-linguistic and multi-paradigm approach coupled with rich data

Novel, state-of-the-art views on central topics in linguistic research

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