Index
Abbott, B.
Abusch, D.
abuse
accessibility
accommodation
activation
advertising
ambiguity
analytic sentence
anaphora
see also pronouns
anomaly
antecedent
antonymy
apologies
argument reversal
see also inversion, passivization
Ariel, M.
Aronoff, M.
artificial intelligence
assertion
Atlas, J.
attributive NPs see referential/attributive distinction
Austin, J.L.
autohyponymy
Avoid Homonymy
Avoid Synonymy
Bach, K.
backward inference
backward-looking center
Bar-Hillel, Y.
betting
bidirectional implication
Birner, B.
Boër, S.
bound variable
brand-new information
bridging inference
Brown, P.
calculability
cancellability
canonical word order
cardinal numbers
Carlson, G.
Carlson, T.
Carston, R.
cataphora
causation
Centering Theory
Chafe, W.
change-of-state verb
Chierchia, G.
Chomsky, N.
Christopherson, P.
Clark, H.
Clark, L.
clefts
Cognitive Principle of Relevance
cognitive status
coherence
cohesion
Coleman, L.
commands
comment
common ground
Communicative Dynamism
Communicative Principle of Relevance
competence
componential semantics
compositionality
conditionals
conjunction
consequent
constancy under negation
constatives
context change potential
context dependence
contextual implication
contiguity
contradiction
contradictories
contraries
contrast set
contrastive stress
conventional implicature
conventionality
conversational implicature
Cooperative Principle
co-presence heuristics
coreference
corpora
Davis, S.
de Swart, H.
dead metaphor
declaratives
defeasibility see cancellability
definite article
definite descriptions
definiteness
definiteness effect
deixis
demonstratives
direct speech acts
discourse analysis
discourse deixis
discourse entity
discourse model
discourse-new information see discourse-status
discourse-old information see discourse-status
discourse record
discourse referent
Discourse Representation Structure
Discourse Representation Theory
discourse-status
discourse topic
disjunction
distal deixis
Division of Pragmatic Labor
donkey anaphora
Donnellan, K.
DRS see Discourse Representation Structure
DRT see Discourse Representation Theory
Dryer, M.
dynamic approaches to meaning
Dynamic Montague Grammar
dynamic semantics
elaborating inference
elicitation
ellipsis
encyclopedic knowledge
entailment
epistemic modals
see also epistemic would
epistemic would
epithets
equative clauses
essential rule
Evans, D.
exclusive or
see also disjunction
existential quantifier
existential there
explicature
explicit performative
eye-tracking
face
face threatening act
factives
false definites
falsifiability
familiarity
felicity
felicity conditions
File Change Semantics
filter
flouting a maxim
focal stress
focus
focus-movement
forward inference
forward-looking center
free variable
see also unbound variable
Frege, G.
functional compositionality
functional dependence
fuzzy set
gapping
garden-path sentence
Gazdar, G.
Geach, P.
generalized conversational implicature
generics
given information
given/new distinction
Givenness Hierarchy
Golding, J.
Graesser, A.
grammaticality
Green, G.
Grice, H.P.
Groenendijk, J.
Grosz, B.
Gundel, J.
Halliday, M.
hard trigger
Harnish, R.
Hasan, R.
Haviland, S.
Hawkins, J.
hearer-new information see hearer-status
hearer-old information see hearer-status
hearer-status
hearer’s economy
Hedberg, N.
hedges
Heim, I.
hereby test
Hirschberg, J.
Hobbs, J.
hole
homonymy
Horn, L.
Horn scale
Huang, Y.
Hume, D.
hyponymy
I-heuristic
I-principle
identity relations
idiolect
idioms
illocutionary act
illocutionary force
imperatives
implication
implicature
implicit meaning
see also implicit performative
implicit performative
impliciture
inclusive or
see also disjunction
indefinite this
indeterminacy
indexicals
see also deixis
indirect speech acts
individuability
individuating set
inference
inferential relations
inferrable information
information packaging
information status
see also activation, brand-new information, comment, discourse-status, focus, given information, hearer-status, inferrable information, new information, open proposition, salience, topic, unused information
information structure
informative-presupposition cleft
intention
interrogatives
intonation
see also stress
intuition
inversion
irony
it-clefts see clefts
iteratives
j-informing
Jennings, T.
joint acts
Joshi, A.
Kamp, H.
Kaplan, J.
Karttunen, L.
Kay, P.
Keenan, J.
Kehler, A.
Kiparsky, C.
Kiparsky, P.
Klein, N.
Kronfeld, A.
Labov, W.
Ladusaw, W.
Lakoff, G.
Lambrecht, K.
law
left-dislocation
Levin, N.
Levinson, S.
Lewis, D.
lexical blocking
lexical pragmatics
lexical semantics
lexicalization
lies
linking relations
literal meaning
see also truth conditions
locatives
locutionary act
Loftus, E.
logic
logical connectives
Long, D.
Lycan, W.G.
M-heuristic
M-principle
Mann, W.
markedness
marrying
Marshall, C.
maxim of Manner
maxim of Quality
maxim of Quantity
maxim of Relation
McCawley, J.
McConnell-Ginet, S.
McKoon, G.
mentalism
metalinguistic negation
metaphor
miscommunication
misfire
morphology
mutual belief
mutual knowledge see mutual belief
natural observation
naturally occurring data
Neale, S.
near miss
negation
negative face
neo-Gricean theory
new information
noncanonical word order
nonconventionality
nondetachability
nonnatural meaning
nonspecific NPs see specific/nonspecific distinction
null anaphora
number agreement
offers
OP see open proposition
open proposition
opting out
ostensive stimulus
Osterhout, L.
paraphrase
partially ordered set
particularized conversational implicature
passivization
Performadox
performance
performative
Performative Hypothesis
perjury
see also lies
perlocutionary act
perlocutionary effect
personal deixis
phonetics
phonology
plug
Poesio, M.
politeness
Politeness Theory
polysemy
poset see partially ordered set
positive cognitive effect
positive face
possible worlds
postposing
postverbal position
potential presupposition
Potts, G.
pragmatic wastebasket
predicate logic
predicational clause
preferred center
preparatory rules
preposing
presentational there
presupposition
presupposition triggers
preverbal position
Prince, E.
projection problem
promises
pronoun resolution
pronouns
see also anaphora
proper nouns
proportion problem
proposition
see also open proposition
propositional-attitude verbs
propositional calculus
propositional-content rule
prosody
see also intonation, stress
prototypes
proximal deixis
pseudoclefts see clefts
psycholinguistic experimentation
Q-heuristic
Q-implicature
Q-principle
quantifier
questions
R-implicature
R-principle
Ratcliff, R.
Reddy, M.
redundancy
reference
referential/attributive distinction
referential NPs see referential/attributive distinction
referentialism
referring expression
reflexives
reification
reinforceability
Reinhart, T.
relevance
see also Relevance theory
Relevance theory
requests
resemblance
Rhetorical Structure Theory
right-dislocation
Roberts, C.
rule-governed knowledge
Russell, B.
Sadock, J.
salience
Sanford, A.
scalar implicature
scales
see also scalar implicature
scope
Searle, J.
semantics/pragmatics boundary
sense
sentence meaning
sentence topic
sentential semantics
sincerity rule
situational context
soft trigger
Solan, L.
spatial deixis
speaker meaning
speaker’s economy
specific/nonspecific distinction
speech acts
Sperber, D.
Square of Opposition
Stalnaker, R.
statements
Stokhof, M.
Strawson, P.F.
stress
strong idiom
subcategorization
subcontraries
substitution
suspension
Sussman, R.
Swinney, D.
synonymy
syntax
synthetic sentence
Tanenhaus, M.
tautology
temporal deixis
tense
tests for conversational implicature
thanking
there-sentences see existential there, presentational there
Thompson, S.
threats
Tiersma, P.
topic
see also topicalization
topicalization
transitivity
translation
trigger
truth conditions
truth tables
truth value
type identifiability
type/token distinction
unbound variable
underspecification
ungrammaticality
uniqueness
universal quantifier
unused information
uptake
van den Broek, P.
variable
violating a maxim
VP-ellipsis
Ward, G.
weak definite
weak idiom
Webber, B.
Weinstein, S.
wh-clefts see clefts
Wilson, D.
Zacharski, R.
Zanni, G.
Zipf, G.