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 …

The paper explains response particles like yes and no as anaphoric elements that pick up
propositional discourse referents that are introduced by preceding sentences. It is argued …

This thesis offers a general game theoretic model of language use and interpretation and
applies it to linguistic pragmatics in the vein of (Grice 1989). The model presented here …

A pragmatic theory of the approximate vs. precise interpretation of round number words such
as one hundred vs. ninety-seven is developed that improves on the previous account of …

This chapter studies the nature of the typology of phonological markedness constraints and
the nature of the typology of the transformation from underlying to surface forms from a …

Diese Untersuchung handelt von sein–dem, laut Grimm'schem Worterbuch," allgemeinsten
und farblosesten aller verbalbegriffe". Sie geht der Frage nach, ob die Kopula sein im …

The paper offers a new proposal for so-called high negation in questions like Isn't there a
vegetarian restaurant around here? It develops a theory of speech acts that allows for …

High above the clouds of California, I feel an acute sense of loss. Yesterday I walked
through golden hills. The last five years have been full of experiences that I wouldn't have …

In this paper I will discuss why (un) marked expressionstypically get an (un) marked
interpretation: Horn'sdivision of pragmatic labor. It is argued that it is a conventional fact that …

In the view of Katz and Fodor (1963: 176) the scope of a language description covers the
knowledge of a fluent speaker “about the structure of his language that enables him to use …