TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elugardo,Reinaldo
AU  - Stainton,Robert J.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech
T2  - En]Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
SN  - 9781402023019
U1  - 149.94 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - PHILOSOPHY (GENERAL)
KW  - LINGUISTICS
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
KW  - SEMANTICS
KW  - PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
KW  - THEORETICAL LANGUAGES
KW  - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (INCL. ROBOTICS)
N1  - The Nature and Scope of Ellipsis -- Against Reconstruction in Ellipsis -- The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives -- Nonsententials in Minimalism -- A Note on Alleged Cases of Nonsentential Assertion -- On the Interpretation and Performance of Non-Sentential Assertions -- Non-Sentences, Implicature, and Success in Communication -- The Link between Sentences and 'Assertion': An Evolutionary Accident? -- Implications -- Knowledge by Acquaintance and Meaning in Isolation -- Co-Extensive Theories and Unembedded Definite Descriptions -- The Ellipsis Account of Fiction-Talk -- Quinean Interpretation and Anti-Vernacularism -- Saying What You Mean: Unarticulated Constituents and Communication
N2  - The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? Each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals specifically with nonsentential speech. Within the first main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issue of whether nonsentential speech falls within the scope of ellipsis or not; within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. This book is unique in that it offers the reader; Papers on the boundary between philosophy and linguistics, Applications of advanced work in theoretical linguistics to traditional philosophical questions, It is the only volume of papers ever published on sub-sentential speech, Major contribution to our understanding of ellipsis in natural language, presently a central topic in syntactic theory. This book is of interest to professionals and advanced graduate students in the fields of philosophy of language, semantics, and syntax
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2301-4
ER  -