(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027213730)
This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and epistemic sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows f...Loe edasi...
What does if mean?It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue co...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Feb-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198712732)
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics. These specially written chapters draw on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in p...Loe edasi...
This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expres...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198860662)
What does if mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue c...Loe edasi...
This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expres...Loe edasi...
Conditionals are sentences of the form If A, then B, and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention fro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107111455)
The importance of the role that conditionals play in both everyday and scientific discourse and reasoning is hard to overestimate. Perhaps it is no surprise then that for quite some time, conditionals have been a central area of investigation not on...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198723820)
This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of meaning as use with the traditional semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann adopts core ideas by the philosopher David Kaplan in assuming that...Loe edasi...
This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of meaning as use with the traditional semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann adopts core ideas by the philosopher David Kaplan in assuming that...Loe edasi...
This collection takes the classical truth-conditional view of formal semantics one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers speaker’s intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, and the meaning of vague or paradoxic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Sep-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262019484)
In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (orwould) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints onthe satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Sep-2013, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262519649)
In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (orwould) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints onthe satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the...Loe edasi...
This volume explores use-conditional meaning. It purports to follow empirical and theoretical studies of expression whose meaning falls outside standard realm of truth-conditional semantics. The nine essays give the truth about lies, including an...Loe edasi...
This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzers classic papers on modals and conditionals, including What must and can must and can mean, Partition and Revision, The Notional Category of Modality, Condit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jan-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199234684)
This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzers classic papers on modals and conditionals, including What must and can must and can mean, Partition and Revision, The Notional Category of Modality, Condit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199233298)
The conditional, if...then, is probably the most important term in natural language and forms the core of systems of logic and mental representation. It occurs in all human languages and allows people to express their knowledge of the causal or law-l...Loe edasi...
Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. Eve Sweetser and Barbara Dancygier offer a new descriptive framework by broadening the range of study. Using a gamut of English conditional constructions, they ex...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2005, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521844680)
Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. Eve Sweetser and Barbara Dancygier offer a new descriptive framework by broadening the range of study. Using a gamut of English conditional constructions, they ex...Loe edasi...
Meduna and Svec (both Brno U. of Technology, Czech Republic) provide the first monograph to systematically and compactly summarize the grammatical concepts and results of recent investigations of grammars with context conditions. Coverage includes an...Loe edasi...
