Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on
neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one …

In this pioneering book Kasia Jaszczolt lays down the foundations of an original theory of
meaning in discourse, reveals the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts …

Das Buch bietet eine umfassende und verständliche Einführung in die Syntax. Im ersten Teil
werden die notwendigen Kenntnisse zur Analyse syntaktischer Strukturen vermittelt und die …

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary
influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a …

This book provides an overview of recent developments within semantic theory. In this book,
ideas from Optimality Theory are applied to the domain of interpretation. The central idea of …

In this short forum piece, I respond to three of the main points Laurence Horn made in his
replies to questions from Istvan Kecskes in this journal (Horn 2005a). My response will …

Die Pragmatik hat sich im Lauf der letzten 40 Jahre fest als linguistische Teildisziplin
etabliert. Schon relativ früh hat sich ein Kanon von Fragestellungen und Konzepten …

An intriguing aspect of the French language is its complex system of interrogative structures;
there exist many question variants to express the same content. For example, Où est-ce que …

The aim of this article is to investigate whether choosing the appropriate referring expression
requires taking into account the hearer's perspective, as is predicted under some versions of …

Previous chapters of this book have paid considerable attention to bidirectional Optimality
Theory, stressing the importance of bidirectionality in natural language interpretation. In …