On the definiteness effect in existential sentences: Data and theories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Introduction: The semantics–pragmatics interface from linguistic and metalinguistic perspectives 1
5. Part One Issues of referentiality
6. On the definiteness effect in existential sentences: Data and theories 25
7. On the semantics and pragmatics of shifted indexicals 57
8. Demonstratives and reference to individuated objects vs. reference to properties of objects: A contrastive analysis 95
9. Part Two Scalar implicatures and beyond
10. Two experiments and some suggestions on the meaning of scalars and numerals 125
11. Some experimental aspects of optimality theoretic pragmatics 161
12. Part Three Pragmatic ways from words to constructions and utterances
13. The cognitive background of grammaticalization 207
14. From syntactic alternations to lexical pragmatics 261
15. How lexical-semantic factors influence the verbs’ occurrence with implicit direct object arguments in Hungarian 305
16. Co-constructing what is said in interaction 349
17. Data-gathering methods in research on hyperbole production and interpretation 381
18. Index 419