Presuppositions And Pronouns (current Research In The Semantics/pragmatics Interface) (current Research In The Semantics/pragmatics Interface)

in This Volume, Geurts Extends Discourse Representation Theory To A Unified Account Of Anaphora And Presupposition, Which He Applies Not Only To The Standard Problem Cases But Also To The Interpretation Of Modal Expressions, Attitude Reports, And Proper Names. The Resulting Theory, For All Its Simplicity, Is Without Doubt The Most Comprehensive Of Its Kind To Date.. This Work Will Be Of Value To Advanced Students And Researchers In Semantics And Pragmatics, The Philosophy Of Language, Cognitive Science And Computational Linguistics.

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geurts (max Planck Institute For Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands) Extends Discourse Representation Theory Into A Unified Account Of Anaphora And Presupposition, Which He Applies Not Only To The Standard Problem Cases, But Also To The Interpretation Of Model Expressions, Attitude Reports, And Proper Names. The Foundation Of His Binding Theory Of Representation Is That Anaphora Is Just A Special Case Of Presupposition Projection. He Also Argues That Presupposition Projection Is Crucially Involved In Several Phenomena That Are Not Usually Viewed In Those Terms, Such As Model Subordination, Readings Of Attitude Reports, And Rigid Designation. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com)