Papers originally presented at the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest, Hungary, July 9-14, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: towards the new linguistic discipline of lexical pragmatics, E. Nemeth T., K. Bibok -- Two case studies in lexical pragmatics, R. Blutner, T. Solstad -- On the scales and implicatures of even, I. Boguslavsky -- The flexibility of inference in triggers for inferable entities: evidence for an interpretability constraint, S.A. Cote -- In defence of monosemy, T. Fretheim -- Pragmatics and the flexibility of theoretical terms in linguistics - two case studies, A. Kertesz -- The development of the grounding predication - epistemic modals and cognitive predicates, P. Pelyvas -- What is polysemy? A survey of current research and results, G. Petho -- Interpreting morphologically complex lexemes revisited, T. Prcic -- Cultural constraints on meaning extension - derivational relations between actions and happenings, R. Rozina -- The communicative function of the Hungarian adverbial marker majd 'later on, some time', I. Vask -- How the lexicon and context interact in the meaning construction of utterances, K. Bibok, E. Nemeth T.

Recently, the investigation of word meaning in utterances has connected two different fields: lexical semantics and pragmatics. A new linguistic discipline, namely lexical pragmatics, is emerging. The eleven papers of the present book constitute a unit in the sense that they have a common aim: to explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. The authors examine phenomena such as productive sense extension, regular polysemy, multifunctionality, implicit arguments and predicates, and non-typical anaphoric pronouns, on the basis of linguistic data, for instance, from English, Norwegian, Russian, and Hungarian, as well as using a great variety of frameworks (optimality framework, two-level semantics, the theory of generative lexicon, cognitive grammar, Gricean theory, and relevance theory.

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