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Constraints on numerical expressions / Chris Cummins

Author
Cummins, Chris
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Constructing a constraint-based model -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.OT modelling of the speaker's choice of utterance -- 2.3.Constitution of an OT system -- 2.4.Proposed constraints and their empirical basis -- 2.5.Additional potential constraints -- 2.6.Summary -- 3.Deriving predictions from the constraint-based account -- 3.1.Constraint interaction in classical OT -- 3.2.Alternative formalisms -- 3.3.The effect of constraint interaction on the speaker -- 3.4.Modelling the effects of constraints on the hearer -- 3.5.Summary -- 4.Towards a pragmatic account of superlative quantifier usage -- 4.1.Overview -- 4.2.Problems with the traditional view of comparative and superlative quantifiers -- 4.3.A semantically modal account of superlative quantifier meaning -- 4.4.Some empirical investigations of quantifier meaning -- 4.5.A pragmatic account of superlative quantifier meaning -- 4.6.Demonstrating the complexity of non-strict comparison -- 4.7.Consequences of the complexity of non-strict comparison -- 4.8.Experimental evidence in favour of the disjunctive account of superlative quantifiers -- 4.9.A constraint-based account of, at least, superlative quantifiers -- 4.10.Summary -- 5.Scalar implicatures from numerically quantified expressions -- 5.1.Pragmatic enrichments of bare numerals -- 5.2.The failure of implicature for comparative and superlative quantifiers -- 5.3.Implicatures predicted by the constraint-based account -- 5.4.Predicted effect of priming on implicature -- 5.5.Inferring the contextual activation of numerals -- 5.6.Summary -- 6.Corpus evidence for constraints on numerical expressions -- 6.1.Constraints and corpus frequencies -- 6.2.Predictions arising from markedness constraints -- 6.3.Some methodological issues in corpus research on numerically quantified expressions -- 6.4.Corpus evidence for the predictions on quantifier usage -- 6.5.Summary -- 7.Overview and outlook -- 7.1.The story so far -- 7.2.Evidential basis for the constraint-based model -- 7.3.Informativeness and the nature of numerical representations -- 7.4.Gradient priming effects -- 7.5.Extension to other domains of usage.
Summary
Chris Cummins presents a novel pragmatic account of the meaning and use of numerically-quantified expressions. In it, the author lays out a set of criteria that are argued individually to influence the speaker's choice of expression. The process of choosing what to say is then treated as a problem of multiple constraint satisfaction. This approach enables multiple different considerations, drawn from principles of semantics, pragmatics, philosophy, psycholinguistics and the psychology of number, simultaneously to be integrated within a single coherent account.
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ISBN
9780191767326 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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