Beschreibung:
Amsterdam is one of the breeding grounds for the formal study of logic and language, for dynamic semantics, and for the study of questions and answers. This book brings together work on the topic as it has been developed in Amsterdam. It illustrates how semantic/pragmatic stance can be used for problems in other areas of linguistic theorising.
1 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions I Update Semantics 2 The Logic of Interrogation 3 Axiomatizing Groenendijks Logic of Interrogation 4 Optimal Inquisitive Discourse II Topic and Focus 5 Only Updates. On the Dynamics of the Focus Particle Only 6 The Dynamics of Topic and Focus 7 Nobody (Anything) Else III Implicatures and Exhaustiveness 8 Exhaustivity, Questions and Plurals in Update Semantics 9 Only: Meaning and Implicatures 10 Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning IV Intonation and Syntax 11 Nuclear Accent, Focus, and Bidirectional OT 12 Counting (on) Usage Information 13 Nuclear Rises in Update Semantics