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On the other hand: A response to some reflections on a recent handbook

• Laurence R Horn

  Laurence Horn is Professor and Director of graduate studies in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. He is the co-editor with Gregory Ward of The Handbook of Pragmatics (Blackwell, 2004) and the author of A Natural History of Negation (Chicago, 1989/CSLI 2001) and numerous publications on implicature, negative polarity, lexical semantics, logical operators, and the semantics/pragmatics interface.

  and Gregory Ward

  Gregory Ward is Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. His main research area is discourse, with specific interests in pragmatic theory, information structure, intonational meaning, and reference. He is co-author (with Betty Birner) of Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English (Benjamins, 1998) and editor (with Betty Birner) of Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn (Benjamins, forthcoming) and (with Laurence R. Horn) of The Handbook of Pragmatics (Blackwell, 2004).