Gregory Ward is Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. His extensive publications in the area of pragmatics and information structure include Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English (with Betty Birner, 1998) and The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing (1988). He is also editor of a new series on language in the real word and currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America.

List of Contributors viii

Introduction xi

I The Domain of Pragmatics 1

1. Implicature 3
Laurence R. Horn

2. Presupposition 29
Jay David Atlas

3. Speech Acts 53
Jerrold Sadock

4. Reference 74
Gregory Carlson

5. Deixis 97
Stephen C. Levinson

6. Definiteness and Indefiniteness 122
Barbara Abbott

II Pragmatics and Discourse Structure 151

7. Information Structure and Non-canonical Syntax 153
Gregory Ward and Betty Birner

8. Topic and Focus 175
Jeanette K. Gundel and Thorstein Fretheim

9. Context in Dynamic Interpretation 197
Craige Roberts

10. Discourse Markers 221
Diane Blakemore

11. Discourse Coherence 241
Andrew Kehler

12. The Pragmatics of Non-sentences 266
Robert J. Stainton

13. Anaphora and the Pragmatics-Syntax Interface 288
Yan Huang

14. Empathy and Direct Discourse Perspectives 315
Susumu Kuno

15. The Pragmatics of Deferred Interpretation 344
Geoffrey Nunberg

16. Pragmatics of Language Performance 365
Herbert H. Clark

17. Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference 383
Andrew Kehler and Gregory Ward

III Pragmatics and its Interfaces 405

18. Some Interactions of Pragmatics and Grammar 407
Georgia M. Green

19. Pragmatics and Argument Structure 427
Adele E. Goldberg

20. Pragmatics and Semantics 442
François Recanati

21. Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language 463
Kent Bach

22. Pragmatics and the Lexicon 488
Reinhard Blutner

23. Pragmatics and Intonation 515
Julia Hirschberg

24. Historical Pragmatics 538
Elizabeth Closs Traugott

25. Pragmatics and Language Acquisition 562
Eve V. Clark

26. Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics 578
Daniel Jurafsky

IV Pragmatics and Cognition 605

27. Relevance Theory 607
Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber

28. Relevance Theory and the Saying/Implicating Distinction 633
Robyn Carston

29. Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics 657
Gilles Fauconnier

30. Pragmatic Aspects of Grammatical Constructions 675
Paul Kay

31. The Pragmatics of Polarity 701
Michael Israel

32. Abduction in Natural Language Understanding 724
Jerry R. Hobbs

Bibliography 742

Index 820