Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

Sauerland, U.; Stateva, P.

All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2007-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349282067

DOI: 10.1057/9780230210752

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 285