This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H.
Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many …

Most frameworks of linguistic analysis tend to highlight phenomena of language use and/or
language knowledge such as sentence and word structure, while backgrounding or ignoring …

Over the past few decades, presupposition and implicature have risen to a pre‐eminent
place in semantics and pragmatics. They are now among the most trusted and widely …

Across languages, we find indefinites that trigger modal inferences. This article contributes
to a semantic typology of these items by contrasting Spanish algún with indefinites like …

The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast is the movement
of a contrastive constituent to a dedicated, left-peripheral position. For Italian and Spanish, it …

In this paper we investigate the essential semantic and pragmatic features associated with
Focus Fronting (FF) in Italian, with the ultimate aim of identifying the actual trigger of this …

This paper discusses the fronting of a focal constituent to a clause-initial position which, in
various languages, is associated with an import of unexpectedness. We provide prosodic …

This paper proposes a way to encode exhaustivity in clefts as a presupposition, something
which has been claimed to be adequate, but never successfully implemented. We …

Building on the basis of the papers in this special issue on 'Contrast as an information-
structural notion in grammar'as well as earlier research, this editorial paper decomposes the …