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This dynamic collection provides an overview of the relationship between linguistic form and interpretation.

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This dynamic collection provides an overview of the relationship between linguistic form and interpretation as exemplified by the most influential of these paradigms - the current Chomskian Government and Binding paradigm, the conflicting Situation Semantics paradigm, the Davidsonian programme and, finally, the new relevance theory of cognition and pragmatics.

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Preface; Part I. Introduction: The Relation Between Language, Mind, and Reality; Part II. On The Direct Interpretation of Natural Languages: 1. Contexts, models, and meanings: a note on the data of semantics James Higginbotham; 2. Facts in situation theory: representation, psychology, or reality? Robin Cooper; 3. Relational interpretation Elisabet Engdahl; Part III. On The Syntactic Base For Interpretation: 4. Bound variable anaphora Robert May; 5. On implicit arguments Michael Brody and M. Rita Manzini; Part IV. On Internal Representations and Natural Language Use: 6. Representation and relevance Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber; 7. Implicature, explicature, and truth-theoretic semantics Robyn Carston; 8. 'So' as a constraint on relevance Diane Blakemore; Part V. The Language Faculty and Cognition: 9. On the grammar-cognition interface: the principle of full interpretation Ruth M. Kempson; Index.

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