Alternatives in Grammar and Cognition
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| Summary: | XVII, 309 p. 155 illus., 8 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76676-3 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction - Alternatives in grammar and cognition (Nicole Gotzner & Jesse A. Harris)
- Part I: The online generation and selection of alternatives in context
- Chapter 2. Generating and selecting alternatives for scalar implicature computation: The Alternative Activation Account and other theories (Nicole Gotzner & Radim Lacina)
- Chapter 3. Informational sources and discourse in the generation and maintenance of alternatives (E. Matthew Husband and Nikole D. Patson)
- Chapter 4. Constructing alternatives: Evidence for the early availability of contextually relevant focus alternatives (Christian J. Muxica & Jesse A. Harris)
- Part II: Operations on salient alternatives
- Chapter 5. Probing the probe: why inference tasks may inflate response rates for scalar implicature (Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny)
- Chapter 6. How to operate over alternatives: The place of the L*+H pitch accent among possible focus meanings (Alexander Göbel)
- Chapter 7. Answerability Constraints on alternative-introducing salient sentences - Support from the evaluativity effects of only and from scalar implicatures (Yael Greenberg:)
- Chapter 8. Any vs. or and indefinites vs. Modals (Sam Alxatib & Andreea Nicolae)
- Commentary
- Chapter 9. Monotonicity, substitution sources, and the robustness of disjunct alternatives (Raj Singh).