Semantics, Pragmatics, & Philosophy of Language


The Logic of Pronominal Resumption

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Paperback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199206438ISBN10: 0199206430 A cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related resumption phenomena
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The Interactive Stance

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Hardback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199697922ISBN10: 0199697922 One of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations
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Modals and Conditionals

New and Revised Perspectives
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Paperback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199234691ISBN10: 0199234698 Updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals
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Modals and Conditionals

New and Revised Perspectives
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Hardback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199234684ISBN10: 019923468X Updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals
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Interpreting Motion

Grounded Representations for Spatial Language
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Hardback Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199601240ISBN10: 0199601240 An integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world shapes the way motion is linguistically expressed

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Quine versus Davidson

Truth, Reference, and Meaning
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Hardback Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199695621ISBN10: 0199695628 Illuminates the one of the most significant debates in 20th-century philosophy

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Transient Truths

An Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions
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Hardback Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199796908ISBN10: 0199796904 Argues for the controversial view that the meaning contents of our utterances and conscious mental states depend on facts about the speaker or bearer of the mental state.
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Having in Mind

The Philosophy of Keith Donnellan
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Hardback Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199844845ISBN10: 0199844844 This volume collects the best critical essays on Donnellan's forty-year body of work.
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The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality

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Hardback Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199541072ISBN10: 0199541078 Leading linguists and philosophers report on one of the most exciting and contentious fields in the study of language and mind, the notion that the meaning of an expression is determined by the meaning and syntax of its parts

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Saussure

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Hardback Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199695652ISBN10: 0199695652 The first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure
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