Author: van Rooij, Robert

Source: Mind and Matter, Volume 4, Number 2, 2006 , pp. 195-218(24)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Abstract:

We investigate to what extent it is possible to determine a reasonable default pragmatic value of complex sentences in a compositional manner, and --when combined with a Boolean semantics --to see under which conditions it gives rise to reasonable predictions. We discuss several notions of pragmatic value, or relevance, and compare their behavior over complex sentences. Although the goal-oriented notions of relevance give rise to the same ordering relations between propositions,the conditions under which they behave 'compositionally' vary significantly.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Institute for Logic,Language,and Computation,University of Amsterdam,Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15,1012 CP Amsterdam,Netherland, Email: R.A.M.vanRooij@uva.nl

Publication date: 2006-01-01

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