There is an age-old tradition in linguistics and philosophy to identify the meaning of a
entence with its truth-conditions. This can be explained by the fact that linguistic and …

In the past decades of research, questions have become a very prominent topic at the
semantics-pragmatics interface. Certainly, they are a natural and challenging topic for any …

Several constructions have been noted to associate with an exhaustive inference, notably
the English it-cleft, the French c'est-cleft, the preverbal focus in Hungarian and the German …

It has been argued that each discourse aims to answer an explicit or implicit question, the
Question Under Discussion (QUD)(see Klein/von Stutterheim 1992 and Simons et al. 2011) …

This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse, through a case study of
patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. The theoretical breadth of the volume …

This paper investigates the internal and external syntax of non-restrictive nominal
appositives (NAPs), such as John Smith in I met an old friend, John Smith, at the pub. It is …

Gegenstand dieses Buches sind Phänomene an der Syntax-Pragmatik-Schnittstelle, zB die
Vorfeldbesetzung, Versetzungsstrukturen an den Satzrändern, die Verbstellung, zentrale vs …

In this article, we develop a theory of the form and interpretation of nonrestrictive nominal
appositives (NAPs) by combining two recent syntactic and pragmatic approaches. Following …

This paper reconsiders the theoretical interpretation of an observation made by AnderBois et
al.(2011) that the (not)-at-issue status of appositive relative clauses (ARCs) depends on their …

We consider two hypotheses about how rhetorical structure and QUD structure might come
together to provide a more general pragmatic theory. Taking SDRT ([2]) and some basic …