This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of'meaning as use'with the traditional
semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann …

Expressives like damn and bastard have, when uttered, an immediate and powerful impact
on the context. They are performative, often destructively so. They are revealing of the …

Interpreting focus Page 1 Interpreting focus BART GEURTS & ROB VAN DER SANDT Abstract
Although it is widely agreed, if often only tacitly, that there is a close connection between focus …

This paper is geared towards compiling and motivating the objects and principles we need
for a semantic analysis of subclausal quotations like (1), in which the quoted expressions …

The phenomenon of mixed quotation exhibits clear signs of both the apparent transparency
of compositional language use and the opacity of pure quotation. I argue that the …

I provide a novel semantic analysis of proper names and indexicals, combining insights from
the competing traditions of referentialism, championed by Kripke and Kaplan, and …

The property of projection poses a challenge to formal semantic theories, due to its apparent
non-compositional nature. Projected content is therefore typically analyzed as being …

We argue that contrastive statements have the same underlying semantics and affect the
context in the same way as denials. We substantiate this claim by giving a unified account of …

As expected, discourse structure appears to play a role in determining intonational phrase
placement. In particular, relative clauses with non-restrictive readings and relative clauses …

This dissertation deals with the relation between words and meanings. Word meanings are
flexible. The same word may have different interpretations, dependent on the context in …