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Constraints on Numerical Expressions (Hardcover)
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Constraints on Numerical Expressions (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics, 5
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This book considers how expressions involving number are used by
speakers and understood by hearers. A speaker's choice of
expression can be a complex problem even in relatively
simple-looking domains. In the case of numerical expressions, there
are often many choices that would be semantically acceptable: for
instance, if 'more than 200' is true, then so is 'more than 199',
'more than 150', and 'more than 100', among others. A speaker does
not choose between these options arbitrarily but also does not
consistently follow any simple rule. The hearer is interested not
just in what has been said but also in any further inferences that
can be drawn. Chris Cummins offers a set of criteria that
individually influence the speaker's choice of expression. The
process of choosing what to say is then treated as a problem of
multiple constraint satisfaction. This approach enables multiple
different considerations, drawn from principles of semantics,
philosophy, psycholinguistics and the psychology of number,
simultaneously to be integrated within a single coherent account.
This constraint-based model offers novel predictions about usage
and interpretation that are borne out experimentally and in corpus
research. It also explains problematic data in numerical
quantification that have previously been handled by more
stipulative means, and offers a potential line of attack for
addressing the problem of the speaker's choice in more general
linguistic environments.
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