Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

ISBN-13: 9780198714231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str.

Mie Unive Osamu (Associate Professor of Linguistics Sawada

Opis

This volume examines the meaning of scalar modifiers - expressions such as more than, a bit, and much - from the standpoint of the semantics-pragmatics interface. It draws on data from Japanese and a range of other languages to explore the information expressed by these modifiers at both the semantic and the pragmatic level.

Recenzje

[a] compact, densely conceived but eminently readable treatise

O autorze

Osamu Sawada received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2010, and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at Mie University. His main research areas are semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, and he is particularly interested in scalar meanings, implicatures, presuppositions, the interaction between grammar and context, and language change. His work has appeared in journals including Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Natural Language Semantics, and Linguistics & Philosophy.