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Formal Pragmatics addresses issues that are on the borderline of semantics and pragmatics of natural language, from the point of view of a model-theoretic semanticist. This up-to-date resource covers a substantial body of formal work on linguistic phenomena, and presents the way the semantics-pragmatics interface has come to be viewed today.

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Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Preliminaries. Part I: Dynamic Semantics, Definites and Indefinites:. 2. Discourse Representation Theory and File Change Semantics. 3. NPs with Numeral Determiners. 4. Semantics and Pragmatics with Definite NPs. Part II: Presupposition:. 5. Presupposition Projection: The Basic Analysis. 6. Presupposition Projection: Filtering vs. Cancellation. 7. Presupposition Projection: Interlude. 8. Presupposition Projection: Negation, Shifts in Contextual Assumptions, and Metalinguistic Operators. 9. Presupposition Projection and Accommodation. 10. More on PS Projection and Accommodation: PS Projection Below the Level of the Clause. 11. Presupposition Triggering and the Behavior of Presuppositions. Part III: Focus:. 12. Some Basics of the Phonology of Prosody. 13. Focus and Focus Identification. 14. Focus: Focus-Induced Interpretations. 15. Problems with Focus-Induced Interpretations. 16. Association With Focus: The 'Domain Selection'/'Free Parameter' Analysis. 17. Focus: The More Complete Analysis. 18. Focus-Induced Interpretations: Some Theoretical Choices to be Made. 19. Focus and Scope. 20. Complex Focal Structures with 'Contrastive Topics'. 21. Focus and Presupposition: The Focal Presupposition and Its Interaction with Other Presuppositions. References. Index.

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