Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Elugardo, Reinaldo (Editor), Stainton, Robert J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: En]Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; 81
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Artificial intelligence.; Semantics.; Linguistics.; Philosophy of Language.; Theoretical Linguistics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

The 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...

Table of Contents:

• The 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.