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245 1 0 _aEllipsis and Nonsentential Speech
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_cedited by Reinaldo Elugardo, Robert J. Stainton.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
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300 _aVII, 266 p.
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490 1 _aEn]Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ;
_v81
505 0 _aThe Nature and Scope of Ellipsis -- Against Reconstruction in Ellipsis -- The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives -- Nonsententials in Minimalism -- A Note on Alleged Cases of Nonsentential Assertion -- On the Interpretation and Performance of Non-Sentential Assertions -- Non-Sentences, Implicature, and Success in Communication -- The Link between Sentences and ‘Assertion’: An Evolutionary Accident? -- Implications -- Knowledge by Acquaintance and Meaning in Isolation -- Co-Extensive Theories and Unembedded Definite Descriptions -- The Ellipsis Account of Fiction-Talk -- Quinean Interpretation and Anti-Vernacularism -- Saying What You Mean: Unarticulated Constituents and Communication.
520 _aThe papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? As will emerge below, each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals speci?cally with nonsentential speech. Within the ?rst main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issueofwhethernonsententialspeechfallswithinthescopeofellipsisornot;within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. I. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF ELLIPSIS A. General Issue: How Many Natural Kinds? There are many things to which the label ‘ellipsis’ can be readily applied. But it’s quite unclear whether all of them belong in a single natural kind. To explain, consider a view, assumed in Stainton (2000), Stainton (2004a), and elsewhere. It is the view that there are fundamentally (at least) three very different things that readily get called ‘ellipsis’, each belonging to a distinct kind. First, there is the very broad phenomenon of a speaker omitting information which the hearer is expected to make use of in interpreting an utterance. Included therein, possibly as a special case, is the use of an abbreviated form of speech, when one could have used a more explicit expression. (See Neale (2000) and Sellars (1954) for more on this idea.
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650 2 4 _aTheoretical Linguistics.
650 2 4 _aArtificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
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