This paper provides a semantic analysis of English rise-fall-rise (RFR) intonation as a focus quantifier over assertable alternative propositions. I locate RFR meaning in the conventional implicature ...

Linguistics is a structured discipline that examines the organization and social dimensions of human language. You will learn about the commonalities among languages, the global diversity of language, ...

Linguistics and Philosophy focuses on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, syntax and related disciplines, in ...