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Klinge, Alex. "Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface." Journal of Pragmatics 34, no. 6 (2002): 795–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(02)00033-4.

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Cap, Piotr. "Explorations in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface." Journal of Pragmatics 40, no. 2 (2008): 377–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2007.10.004.

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Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard, and Ken Turner. "Explorations in the semantics-pragmatics interface." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 38, no. 1 (2006): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2006.10412200.

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Cornillie, Bert, Juana Isabel Marín Arrese, and Björn Wiemer. "Evidentiality and the semantics-pragmatics interface." Evidentiality and the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 29 (December 31, 2015): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.29.001int.

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Kecskes, Istvan. "Impoverished pragmatics? The semantics-pragmatics interface from an intercultural perspective." Intercultural Pragmatics 16, no. 5 (2019): 489–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2019-0026.

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AbstractThe semantic-pragmatic interface debate is about how much actual situational context the linguistic signs need in order for them to be meaningful in the communicative process. There is evidence that interlocutors in intercultural interactions rely more Some of the ideas in the paper are based on chapter six in Kecskes (2019). on the compositional meaning of linguistic signs (semantics) than contextually supported meaning (pragmatics) because actual situational context cannot help pragmatic implication and interpretation the way it does in L1 communication. At the same time in pragmatic

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Kolkmann, Julia. "Possessive interpretation at the semantics-pragmatics interface." Constructions and Frames 11, no. 2 (2019): 244–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.00030.kol.

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Abstract This paper discusses semantic and pragmatic aspects of possessive interpretation (PI), the process whereby semantically underspecified possessive noun phrases (NPs) such as John Smith’s house and the house of John Smith receive concrete referential interpretations (e.g. ‘the house owned by John Smith’) in context. By observing what is common to the interpretation of both constructions, I lay out the ingredients for a uniform pragmatic account of PI whilst rehashing the contextualist notion of saturation. As defined by Recanati (2004, 2010) and many others, saturation is a linguistical

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Papafragou, Anna, and Julien Musolino. "Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics–pragmatics interface." Cognition 86, no. 3 (2003): 253–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0010-0277(02)00179-8.

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Carretero, Marta. "Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (review)." Language 79, no. 2 (2003): 448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2003.0112.

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Gualmini, Andrea, Stephen Crain, Luisa Meroni, Gennaro Chierchia, and Maria Teresa Guasti. "At the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface in Child Language." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 11 (October 3, 2001): 231. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v11i0.2840.

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Vlachos, Christos, and Michalis Chiou. "The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of ‘optional’ wh-in situ in Greek." Journal of Greek Linguistics 20, no. 1 (2020): 102–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02001001.

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Abstract Building on the relevant literature, this paper provides an up-to-now missing overarching approach to ‘optional’ wh-in situ questions in Greek, by arguing that some properties of wh-in situ are computed at the interface between syntax and semantics, other properties relate to the syntax-pragmatics interface, and yet others are derived at the interface between PF and pragmatics. Wh-in situ is not semantically (hence, syntactically) equivalent to wh-fronting, with the latter being the default strategy of Greek on empirical grounds. Wh-in situ assumes distinct syntax and semantics, while

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Leezenberg, Michiel. "Power in communication: implications for the semantics-pragmatics interface." Journal of Pragmatics 34, no. 7 (2002): 893–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(01)00067-4.

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Terkourafi, Marina. "The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View." Journal of Pragmatics 35, no. 2 (2003): 307–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(02)00096-6.

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Sullivan, Arthur. "Multiple propositions, contextual variability, and the semantics/pragmatics interface." Synthese 190, no. 14 (2012): 2773–800. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0084-0.

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SALKIE, RAPHAEL. "Anna Papafragou, Modality: issues in the semantics–pragmatics interface (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 6). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2000. Pp. xii+238." Journal of Linguistics 38, no. 3 (2002): 709–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226702251920.

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Джарбо Сaмер Омар. "The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: The Case of the Singular Feminine Demonstrative in Jordanian Arabic." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 4, no. 1 (2017): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2017.4.1.jar.

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The aim in this study is to investigate the interface between semantics and pragmatics in relation to the use of the indexical demonstrative ‘haay’ ‘this-S.F.’ in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It is argued here that an analysis of meaning in relation to context-sensitivity inherent in the use of ‘haay’ can give evidence to the view that semantic and pragmatic processes can be distinguished from each other. I have found that the meaning of ‘haay’ consists of three distinct levels: linguistic, semantic, and pragmatic meaning. The denotational and conventional senses of ‘haay’ comprise its linguistic me

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Benz, Anton, Katja Jasinskaja, and Uli Sauerland. "Theoretical Pragmatics: An Introduction." International Review of Pragmatics 4, no. 2 (2012): 133–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-00040202.

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The last decade witnessed a surge of new research in pragmatics, fuelled by the emergence of new theoretical frameworks, an increased interest in the semantics-pragmatics interface, and the establishment of experimental pragmatics as a new research paradigm. Many of these developments concern the line of pragmatics which originated with the work of H. Paul Grice. Of new theoretical frameworks, we may mention different variants of optimality and game theoretic approaches, localist semantic theories of embedded implicatures, logical globalist formalisations of Gricean pragmatics, and multi-layer

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Zhen-qiang, Fan. "Book review: Jorg Meibauer, Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface." Discourse Studies 18, no. 4 (2016): 482–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445616646923e.

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Michaelis, Laura A. "Aspect and the semantics-pragmatics interface: The case of already." Lingua 87, no. 4 (1992): 321–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(92)90015-b.

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Khalaf, Eman Al. "NPI licensing in Jordanian Arabic: An argument for downward entailment and syntax-semantics interface." Topics in Linguistics 18, no. 2 (2017): 24–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/topling-2017-0008.

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AbstractRecent work shows that downward entailment (DE) cannot be the right semantic domain that licenses negative polarity items (NPIs). Zwarts (1995), Giannakidou (1998), among others, argue that NPIs are licensed in non-veridical domains, those that do not entail or presuppose the truth of the propositions they embed. In this paper, based on empirical facts, I argue that DE theory is the right analysis for Jordanian Arabic. I propose an analysis of NPI licensing in which three components of grammar interface: syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Semantics defines the class of NPI licensors, pr

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Grindrod, Jumbly. "What is Said and What is Not: the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface." Disputatio 7, no. 40 (2015): 87–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2015-0005.

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Ritz, Marie-Eve. "‘Hot news’ and perfect change: mirativity and the semantics/pragmatics interface." Catalan Journal of Linguistics 17 (December 5, 2018): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.245.

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Xu, Zhongyi. "Book review: Edgar Onea, Potential Questions at the Semantics–Pragmatics Interface." Discourse Studies 19, no. 4 (2017): 481–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445617706770a.

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Hedger, Joseph A. "Meaning and racial slurs: Derogatory epithets and the semantics/pragmatics interface." Language & Communication 33, no. 3 (2013): 205–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2013.04.004.

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Belligh, Thomas. "Dutch thetic and sentence-focus constructions on the semantics-pragmatics interface." Studies in Language 44, no. 4 (2020): 831–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.19021.bel.

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Abstract This article studies the various uses of a Dutch thetic and sentence-focus construction, viz. the Syntactic Inversion with Filler Insertion Construction (henceforth: SIFIC), e.g. Er loopt een man over straat (‘There is a man walking across the street’). The article investigates whether theticity and sentence-focus are semantically encoded meanings of the SIFIC or pragmatically inferred senses. SIFIC tokens (N = 750) were extracted from the Dutch SoNaR Corpus and annotated for five factors. The analysis shows that the SIFIC can have information-structural uses that are diametrically op

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Huang, Yi Ting, and Jesse Snedeker. "Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantics–pragmatics interface." Cognitive Psychology 58, no. 3 (2009): 376–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2008.09.001.

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Zanuttini, Raffaella, and Paul Portner. "Exclamative clauses at the syntax-semantics interface." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 24 (January 1, 2001): 1–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.24.2001.126.

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Exclamative clauses exhibit a structural diversity which raises the question of whether they form a clause type in the sense of Sadock & Zwicky (1985). Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we argue that the class of exclamatives is syntactically characterizable in terms of a pair of abstract syntactic properties. Moreover, we propose that these properties encode two components of meaning which uniquely define the semantics and pragmatics of exclarnatives. Overall, our paper is a contribution to the study of the syntaxlsemantics interface and offers a new perspective on the noti

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Feng, Shuo. "THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH DEFINITE NOUN PHRASES BY MANDARIN CHINESE SPEAKERS." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 41, no. 04 (2019): 881–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263118000323.

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AbstractBy replicating Cho (2017), this article investigates how second language (L2) learners with an article-less first language acquire two types of English definiteness, anaphoric and nonanaphoric. Mandarin Chinese, as an article-less language, has a demonstrative determiner that shares the same feature set as the English definite article the: [+definite, +/-anaphoric]. In the current study, the participants were 28 advanced and 25 intermediate L1-Chinese L2-English learners and the native control data were from Cho. The results from an acceptability judgment task revealed that intermediat

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Özçelik, Öner. "Interface Hypothesis and the L2 acquisition of quantificational scope at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface." Language Acquisition 25, no. 2 (2017): 213–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2016.1273936.

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Mey, Jacob L. "Osamu Sawada, 2018. Pragmatic aspects of scalar modifiers: The semantics-pragmatics interface." Pragmatics and Society 9, no. 4 (2018): 654–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.00011.mey.

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Roberts, John R. "Review of Van Valin (2008): Investigations of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface." Functions of Language 18, no. 1 (2011): 108–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.18.1.08rob.

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Molsing, Karina Veronica. "present perfect at the semantics/pragmatics interface: American English and Brazilian Portuguese." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 44, no. 1 (2006): 239–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.44.2006.313.

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Modern theorists rarely agree on how to represent the categories of tense and aspect, making a consistent analysis for phenomena, such as the present perfect, more difficult to attain. It has been argued in previous analyses that the variable behavior of the present perfect between languages licenses independently motivated treatments, particularly of a morphosyntactic or semanticsyntactic nature (Giorgi & Pianesi 1997; Schmitt 2001; Ilari 2001). More specifically, the wellknown readings of the American English (AE) present perfect (resultative, experiential, persistent situation, recent p

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Meibauer, Jörg. "Word-Formation and Contextualism." International Review of Pragmatics 6, no. 1 (2014): 103–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-00601006.

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While there is, under the heading of “morphopragmatics”, some research on the relation of pragmatics and word-formation, especially with a focus on diminutives, the major theoretical models of word-formation do not account for the word-formation/pragmatics interface in any systematic fashion. Moreover, in recent contextualist approaches to the semantics/pragmatics interface, the typical grammatical unit referred to is the sentence (including words that constitute a sentence), but not word structure or the morpheme. Drawing on morphological data from German, I will show the influence of pragmat

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Katsos, Napoleon. "The semantics/pragmatics interface from an experimental perspective: the case of scalar implicature." Synthese 165, no. 3 (2007): 385–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-007-9187-4.

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Aitken, Martin. "The English Possessive Marker in a Framework of Relevance." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 22, no. 43 (2017): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v22i43.96877.

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English nominals constructed with the morpheme {-s} as a so-called possessive marker may be assigned an indeﬁnitely large number of interpretations depending on the context of utterance. This raises interesting questions concerning the interface between semantics and pragmatics, most obviously concerning the more speciﬁc nature of the contextually invariable encoded content of the morpheme as well as the contribution made by that content to the process of comprehension. This article aims brieﬂy to suggest one solution to these problems by proposing an underdetermined procedural semantics feedi

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Fortuny Andreu, Jordi. "Sobre el lligam sintàctic de variables i la relació de c-comandament." Quaderns de Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics 23, no. 23 (2018): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/qf.23.13529.

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This article is focused on a central aspect of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface: the so-called anaphorical relations. More precisely, it identifies a selection of shortcomings of Chomsky’s (1981) classical binding theory and Huang’s (2007) version of the pragmatic neo-Gricean apparatus, originally proposed by Levinson (1987, 1989). Besides enumerating interesting problems for certain theoretical frameworks, I highlight the need for integrating syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors in order to construct a more adequate theoretical model for anaphora.

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Costa, Jorge Campos da, and Claudia Strey. "INFERENCES AND INTERFACES: VALIDITY AND RELEVANCE." Linguagem em (Dis)curso 14, no. 3 (2014): 577–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-4017-140308-0814.

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The Ancient Greeks, since the sophists' texts represented threats to legitimate reasoning anchored in the notion of truth, tried to examine the relationship among valid, informal and fallacious arguments. Aristotle distinguished mainly formal ways of abstractions from the daily practical uses, addressing the relationships between the logical forms and the interferences of content. This paper, motivated by this script of insights, investigates problems concerning logical operators, relations of sense, probability, entailment and their properties in natural language, constituted as inferences in

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Börjesson, Kristin. "The semantics-pragmatics interface: The role of speaker intentions and the nature of implicit meaning aspects." Langages 201, no. 1 (2016): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/lang.201.0015.

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Kullavanijaya, Pranee. "The 2005 Year’s Work in Linguistics in Thailand." MANUSYA 10, no. 3 (2007): 133–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01003008.

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A study of Thai linguistics works in 2005 shows that most are MA. theses and doctoral dissertations done by Thai students in five universities in Thailand and a few universities in the U.S.. and the UK.. Only three works analyse foreign languages, while the rest investigate the Bangkok Thai dialect. Five main areas are identified: sound and orthography, sociolinguistics, utterance semantics, lexical semantics and syntax-semantic interface. More works focus on the last two areas. With regard to the frameworks used in the analyses, pragmatics, discourse, and speech acts are found most often. Sev

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Borgonovo, Claudia, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, and Philippe Prévost. "MOOD SELECTION IN RELATIVE CLAUSES." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 37, no. 1 (2014): 33–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263114000321.

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There is presently a lively debate in second language (L2) acquisition research as to whether (adult) learners can acquire linguistic phenomena located at the interface between syntax and other modules, such as semantics, pragmatics, and lexical semantics, in contrast to phenomena that are purely syntactic in nature. For some researchers, the interface is precisely the place where fossilization occurs and the source of nonconvergence in L2 speakers. In this article we focus on the acquisition of the morphosyntax-semantics interface by examining the acquisition of mood in Spanish relative claus

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Hackstein, Olav. "Negative Interrogatives and Whatnot." Indo-European Linguistics 4, no. 1 (2016): 150–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22125892-00401005.

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The present article examines the attenuation and conversion of outer and inner negations under interrogative scope (interrogative negation). Interrogative scope over outer and inner negations triggers network processes at the interface of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, which may in the long run result in the bleaching of their negating function. This explains the crosslinguistically frequent homophony of negations with non-negating particles, conjunctions and complementizers. I discuss four mechanisms, the Asking > Calling-into-Question Implicature (§§ 2, 3), the Asking-for-Confirmation

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Belfarhi, Khadija. "RETHINKING LANGUAGE AMBIGUITY BEYOND THE SEMANTICO-PRAGMATIC INTERFACE." Folia linguistica et litteraria XII, no. 34 (2021): 211–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.34.2021.12.

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Ambiguity occurs when the language user intends unspecific and unclear meaning through written or spoken language. It has been approached by semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language because indeterminate meaning needs a mechanism that assembles the right attributes for decreasing ambiguity. In that, such a mechanism acts away from the structural conditional which was for long thought applicable for clarifying meaning. An extension in the semantic-pragmatic mechanism is needed as far as the latter fails to account for indeterminate meaning. The present paper suggests a more interactiona

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Barberà, Gemma. "Indefiniteness and specificity marking in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)." Sign Language and Linguistics 19, no. 1 (2016): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sll.19.1.01bar.

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Bringing together the areas of sign language semantics-pragmatics interface and discourse reference, this article offers a description of how indefiniteness and (non‑)specificity is encoded in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). By using a combined methodology of corpus data and grammatical tests, the present study shows that the encoding of indefiniteness and specificity in LSC is achieved by three main means, namely lexical signs, the use of nonmanuals, and the use of signing space. The basic primitives required to analyze specificity in LSC comprise wide scope, epistemicity, and partitivity. This

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Capone, Alessandro. "Ken Turner (ed.),The semantics/pragmatics interface from different points of view. Oxford: Elsevier, 1999. Pp. x+491." Journal of Linguistics 37, no. 2 (2001): 393–450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226701008878.

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PAPAFRAGOU, ANNA. "From scalar semantics to implicature: children's interpretation of aspectuals." Journal of Child Language 33, no. 4 (2006): 721–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000906007550.

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One of the tasks of language learning is the discovery of the intricate division of labour between the lexical-semantic content of an expression and the pragmatic inferences the expression can be used to convey. Here we investigate experimentally the development of the semantics–pragmatics interface, focusing on Greek-speaking five-year-olds' interpretation of aspectual expressions such as arxizo (‘start’) and degree modifiers such as miso (‘half’) and mexri ti mesi (‘halfway’). Such expressions are known to give rise to scalar inferences crosslinguistically: for instance, start, even though c

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Cook, Eung-Do, and Andrea Wilhelm. "Noun Incorporation new Evidence from Athapaskan." Studies in Language 22, no. 1 (1998): 49–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.22.1.03coo.

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This paper deals with noun incorporation data from Northern Athapaskan languages, which have not hitherto been analyzed formally. Based on semantic characteristics of noun incorporation and on incorporation from oblique and subject positions, we claim that this phenomenon does not obey the syntactic rules posited by Baker (1988). A theory which seeks to constrain noun incorporation in terms of grammatical relations is not adequate for explaining it in Northern Athapaskan. A functional approach (Givón 1984, 1985), which is sensitive to the semantics and pragmatics of incorporation, is found to

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Borgonovo, Claudia, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Philippe Prévost, and Elena Valenzuela. "Specificity in Spanish." EUROSLA Yearbook 6 (July 20, 2006): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.6.06bor.

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Recent proposals argue that interface areas such as syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics are particularly difficult for adult learners, in comparison to purely syntactic phenomena (Sorace 2003, 2004). In contrast, other research shows that L2 learners are able to acquire target representations even when the interpretation is not readily available in the input (Borgonovo, Bruhn de Garavito and Prévost 2005, Dekydtspotter and Sprouse 2001). In this paper we add to the growing literature on the acquisition of interpretational properties by showing that adult L2 learners can acquire knowledge of

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COULSON, SEANA. "Michiel Leezenberg, Contexts of metaphor (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 7). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001. Pp. viii+321." Journal of Linguistics 39, no. 3 (2003): 704–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226703242304.

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Hacquard, Valentine. "Bootstrapping attitudes." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 24 (April 5, 2015): 330. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v24i0.2434.

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This paper explores two classic problems at the semantics-pragmatics interface from a learner’s perspective. First, the meaning that speakers convey often goes beyond the literal meaning of the sentences they utter. Second, not all content encoded in utterances has equal standing: some is foregrounded, some backgrounded. Yet a sentence does not formally distinguish what a speaker asserts from what she presupposes or merely implicates. For this reason, the child acquiring a language has a daunting task. She must both extract the literal meaning from the overall message, and separate the backgro

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Meibauer, Jörg. "A truth that’s told with bad intent." New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents 28 (November 28, 2014): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.28.05mei.

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In recent years, a lively debate has emerged about the question of correctly defining lying. Two strands of argumentation have evolved in the philosophy of language: First, the idea that lying is not necessarily connected to an intention of the speaker to deceive the hearer (e.g., Carson 2010); second, the idea that there is a fundamental distinction between lying and mere misleading (e.g., Saul 2012). This paper deals with both assumptions from the vantage point of the semantics-pragmatics interface and relates them to the question of how it is possible to lie while drawing on implicit conten

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Chung, Hye-Yoon. "The Acquisition of the Linguistic Phenomenon at the Interface between Syntax and Discourse-Pragmatics/Semantics by Korean Learners of Spanish." Studies in Linguistics 54 (January 31, 2020): 309–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17002/sil..54.202001.309.

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