Fine-tuning Jespersen’s Cycle

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Where have some of the presuppositions gone? 1
5. The top 10 misconceptions about implicature 21
6. Inferential relations and noncanonical word order 31
7. Sherlock Holmes Was In No Danger 53
8. Free choice in Romanian 71
9. Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties of even 95
10. Discourse particles and the symbiosis of natural language processing and basic research 117
11. Saying less and meaning less 137
12. I can’t seem to figure this out 157
13. Referring expressions and conversational implicature 177
14. Indexi-lexicography 195
15. Why defining is seldom ‘just semantics’ 217
16. Negation and modularity 241
17. A note on Mandarin possessives, demonstratives, and definiteness 263
18. On a homework problem of Larry Horn’s 281
19. Impersonal pronouns in French and Yiddish 295
20. Motors and switches 317
21. Fine-tuning Jespersen’s Cycle 327
22. Index 345