Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

Traditional accounts of language processing suggest that monologue–presenting and
listening to speeches–should be more straightforward than dialogue–holding a …

" This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as well as an indispensible
reference for researchers. Introducing NLP, computational linguistics, and speech …

Constructions work Page 1 Constructions work ADELE E. GOLDBERG1 Abstract This paper
provides responses to the points raised in this volume in an e¤ort to evaluate, clarify and …

This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H.
Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many …

Linguistic interaction between two people is the fundamental form of communication, yet
almost all research in language use focuses on isolated speakers and listeners. In this …

Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study
of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field …

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal
pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language …

Fragmentary utterances such as 'short'answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic
antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis …

1.1 Two Conceptions of Grammar The reader may wonder, why would a college offer
courses on grammar–a topic that is usually thought of as part of junior high school …