This volume explores the themes of implicatures, negation and presupposition. It is an up-to-date account of current research as well as an overview of what is happening in the field.
All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely
Linguists have recently argued that despite its apparent complexity, human language can be reduced to a small inventory of core cognitive competencies, Noam Chomsky's Minimalist Program being the most