Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics Series

12 primary works • 12 total works
This series provides a platform for original research on meaning in natural language within contemporary semantics and pragmatics. Authors are encouraged to present their work in the context of past and present lines of inquiry and in a manner accessible to semanticists and pragmatists in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science, as well as t…
Constraints on Numerical Expressions
This book considers how expressions involving numb…
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Definite Descriptions
3.33
· 3 Ratings · published 2013 · 7 editions
This book argues that definite descriptions ('the …
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Gradability in Natural Language: Logical and Grammatical Foundations
This book presents a new theory of the relationshi…
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Graded Modality: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives
This book explores graded expressions of modality,…
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Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention
This book investigates the relation between langua…
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Reliability in Pragmatics
This book is an exploration of how knowledge about…
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Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics
This book explores linguistic and philosophical is…
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The Meaning of More
This book reimagines the compositional semantics o…
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning
This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of…
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The Semantics of Evidentials
This book provides argues for a compositional, tru…
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Use-Conditional Meaning: Studies in Multidimensional Semantics
This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic th…
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Weak Island Semantics
4.00
· 1 Ratings · published 2014 · 6 editions
This book presents a novel semantic account of wea…
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