A01=Cleo A. Condoravdi
Admissible Contexts
Author_Cleo A. Condoravdi
Bare Plurals
Carlson's Analysis
Category=CFG
Contextual Restrictions
Contextual Update
Definite Np
Descriptive Content
Discourse
Discourse Referent
dynamic meaning in linguistics
dynamic semantics
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Existential Reading
Felicity Conditions
file change theory
Functional Reading
generic noun phrases
Generic Quantifier
Implicit Operator
Indefinite Np
Indefiniteness Analysis
Individual Level Predicates
Linguistic Theory
Novelty Condition
novelty-familiarity distinction
Nuclear Scope
Ordering Source
Philosophy of Language
Police Connections
presupposition projection
quantificational subordination
Referential Interpretation
Semantics
Singular Indefinite
Stage Level Predicates
Syntax
Universal Reading
Weak Novelty
Product details
- ISBN 9781138697416
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions — taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a special type of indefinites that have an interpretation commonly associated with definites. It further argues that the felicity conditions associated with indefinite NP’s can vary and develops a more fine-grained theory of novelty within the framework of File Change Semantics. More generally, this work can be seen as providing an empirical argument in favour of a dynamic theory of meaning and against the more traditional truth-conditional theory.
