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    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This collection of papers takes linguists to the leading edge of techniques in generative lexicon theory, the linguistic composition methodology that arose from the imperative to provide a compositional semantics for the contextual modifications in meaning that emerge in real linguistic usage. Today’s growing shift towards distributed compositional analyses evinces the applicability of GL theory, ... Read more

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity*,* focusing onhow negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation**. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various ... Read more

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  • Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts. The 19 contributions provide insights on the interplay between semantics and pragmatics. The volume’s reach is ... Read more

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  • Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages

    Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

    Series series Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics
    Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This book provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical hypotheses regarding differences and commonalities between numeral classifier languages and other mainly article ... Read more

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    Series series Politics in Asia
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