This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambi

This volume brings together essays on the structure of language and the use of language during the course of its acquisition. -- pref.

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theore

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