Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics Japanese and Beyond /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McCready, Eric (Editor), Yabushita, Katsuhiko (Editor), Yoshimoto, Kei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy,
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Pragmatism.; Semantics.

This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese a...