Meaning through language contrast . Volume 1 / / edited by K.M. Jaszczolt, Ken Turner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825357503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-16139-3; 9786612161391; 90-272-9674-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 99
• Altri autori (Persone): JaszczoltKatarzyna; TurnerKen <1956->
• Disciplina: 401/.43
• Soggetti: Contrastive linguistics; Semantics; Pragmatics; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Meaning Through Language Contrast; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Editorial preface; References; Part I: Negation; Distributional restrictions on negative determiners; Summing up; Notes; References; Towards a comprehensive view of Negative Concord; General conclusion; Notes; References; Part II:Temporality; On temporal constructions involving counting from anchor points; Conclusion; Notes; References; On the semantics and pragmatics of situational anaphoric temporal locators in Portuguese and in English; Conclusions; References; Remarks on the semantics of eventualities with measure phrases in English and RomanianConclusions; Notes; References; The present perfect in English and in Catalan; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix: List of works used; Catalan theatre plays; English novels and films; References; A contrastive reading of temporal-aspectual morphemes in Swahili; Conclusions; Notes; References; Part III: Modality; Semantic and pragmatic constraints on mood selection; Final remarks; Notes; References; Dilemmas and excogitations: Further considerations on ; modality, clitics and discourse; Acknowledgments; Notes; ReferencesPart IV: Evidentiality; Inferred evidence; Notes; References; Extension of meaning; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Part V: Perspectives on eventualities; Information structure, argument structure, and typological variation; Summary; Notes; References; The network of demotion; Conclusion and further research; Notes; References; Valence change and the function of intransitive verbs in English and Japanese; Conclusion; Notes; References; The transitive/intransitive construction of events in Japanese and English discourse; Conclusions; List of abbreviations; Transcription conventionsNotes; References; Part VI: Topics in grammar and conceptualization; Towards a universal DRT model for the interpretation of directional PPs within a reference frame; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; The interaction of syntax and pragmatics; Conclusion; Notes; References; Constraint interaction at the semantics/pragmatics interface; Conclusions; References; Cross-language commutation tests and their application to an error-prone contrastive problem; Notes; References; Language index; Name index; Subject index; Contents of Volume 2
• Sommario/riassunto: These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusi