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Sense and Sensitivity
How Focus Determines Meaning, Explorations in Semantics
ISBN/EAN: 9781405112642
Umbreit-Nr.: 1819248
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 376 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 05.09.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
- Autorenportrait
- David I. Beaver is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics (2001); is co-editor of several books, including The Construction of Meaning (2002); has authored numerous articles for prestigious journals including Linguistics and Philosophy, and Language; is on the editorial team or board of all the three leading journals in semantics; and is co-founder of a new open access journal, Semantics and Pragmatics, supported by the Linguistic Society of America.Brady Z. Clark is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University and a faculty member at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. He is co-editor (with Beaver, Casillas-Martínez, and Kaufmann) of The Construction of Meaning (2002). He has published in journals including Natural Language Semantics and Language, on topics ranging from semantics to historical syntax and tutorial dialogue systems.