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.