Questa serie approfondisce i temi fondamentali della teoria semantica e pragmatica. Ogni volume offre esplorazioni accessibili ma stimolanti delle questioni chiave nella comprensione delle lingue naturali. Esperti di spicco riesaminano concetti consolidati alla luce dei recenti progressi e introducono aree emergenti di studio. I libri sono risorse ideali per studenti e studiosi che cercano una comprensione più profonda del significato linguistico e della sua applicazione contestuale.
The book is an investigation of the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective. It reviews some recent major linguistic results in these topics, and presents the author's new research including in- depth case studies of a number of typologically unrelated languages.
Ideal for advanced students and individual researchers in semantics and pragmatics, as well as related fields such as philosophy. It provides a non- specialized audience with the understanding of what irony is and its numerous manifestations. To specialized readers, its analysis of irony offers a deeper understanding and clarification of this form of human communication.