All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation.

SIGRID BECK Professor of Linguistics, University of Tubingen, Germany REGINE ECKARDT Professor of English, Gottingen University, Germany DANNY FOX Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA GERHARD JA GER Professor of Linguistics, University of Bielefeld, Germany MANFRED KRIFKA Professor of General Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Director of ZAS (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin), Germany ORIN PERCUS Faculty of the University of Nantes, France PHILIPPE SCHLENKER Professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, USA and is affiliated with Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS) in Paris, France BENJAMIN SPECTOR Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

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SIGRID BECK Professor of Linguistics, University of Tubingen, Germany REGINE ECKARDT Professor of English, Goettingen University, Germany DANNY FOX Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA GERHARD JAEGER Professor of Linguistics, University of Bielefeld, Germany MANFRED KRIFKA Professor of General Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Director of ZAS (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin), Germany ORIN PERCUS Faculty of the University of Nantes, France PHILIPPE SCHLENKER Professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, USA and is affiliated with Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS) in Paris, France BENJAMIN SPECTOR Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.


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ISBN 9780230005334
Author U. Sauerland
Format Hardback
Page Count 285
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan