LEADER 04829nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910782789603321 005 20230721004330.0 010 $a1-283-39691-2 010 $a9786613396914 010 $a3-11-020930-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110209303 035 $a(CKB)1000000000692167 035 $a(EBL)370774 035 $a(OCoLC)476206351 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139703 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139464 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139703 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017313 035 $a(PQKB)11501655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC370774 035 $a(DE-B1597)35092 035 $a(OCoLC)646770429 035 $a(OCoLC)703226862 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110209303 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL370774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256658 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL339691 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000692167 100 $a20080703d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe discourse potential of underspecified structures$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Anita Steube 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cWalter de Gruyter$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (636 p.) 225 1 $aLanguage, context, and cognition ;$vv. 8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-020573-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 598-599) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tSection I: Underspecification in the lexicon -- $tUnderspecification in the Lexicon: The Indo-European Root Cconcept -- $tMultiple suffixes and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages -- $tThe Structure of the Indo-European Lexicon: Nominal Word Formation and the Secondary Lexicon -- $tUnderspecification and the noun/verb distinction: Late Archaic Chinese and Khmer -- $tSection II: Underspecification and coercion -- $tUnderspecification and Coercion: Nouns and Nominalizations in German -- $tWhat Kind of Events Do Achievements Describe? -- $tRight Boundary Achievements under Conative Negation -- $tNegating Right Boundary Achievements (Comments on Malink) -- $tSection III: Empirical evidence on the linearization of German -- $tComparing Linguistic Judgments and Corpus Frequencies as Windows on Grammatical Competence: A Study of Argument Linearization in German Clauses -- $tEffects of Local Context on Argument Number and Verb Type Expectations -- $tProsody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right Node Raising in English -- $tSection IV: Underspecification in information- and discourse structure -- $tRussian Interrogatives and Intonational Categories -- $tProsody and Information Structure of Factive Embeddings in Russian -- $tThe Prosody of Adversative Constructions in West Slavic Languages -- $tThe Syntax of Contrast and Correction Readings of Polish Adversative Coordinate Structures -- $tWhen the Negative Goes Missing: The Role of the Information Structure in Gapping Coordinations with but -- $tFocus and Emphasis in Tone and Intonational Languages -- $tStudies on the Acceptability of Object Movement to Spec,CP -- $tFocus Particles in the German Middlefield -- $tWord order, Clitics, and Agreement in Arabic Information Structure -- $tInformation Structure in Ancient Greek -- $tSemantic Composition of German Information Structures with Operators -- $tSemantic Contributions of the Left Periphery to Discourse Linking: The Case of Topics in the Prefield and Middlefield in German -- $tDimensions of Discourse: Presuppositions of (German) Connectors -- $tImplicated Presuppositions -- $t Backmatter 330 $aThe volume demonstrates the interdependence of man's language capacity and his other conceptual capacities. This enables linguistic structures to be minimalised, and for extra-linguistic domains to provide much of the interpretations of sound and meaning. Underspecification is demonstrated in the word formation of Indo-European, Late Archaic Chinese and modern Khmer; on the word- and sentence levels by the event structures of German; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so-called free word order: German, Slavic languages, Arabic compared with English and the ton 410 0$aLanguage, context, and cognition ;$vv. 8. 606 $aUnderspecification (Linguistics) 610 $aGrammar. 610 $aInformation structure. 610 $aword formation. 615 0$aUnderspecification (Linguistics) 676 $a410 686 $aER 950$2rvk 701 $aSteube$b Anita$0710810 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782789603321 996 $aThe discourse potential of underspecified structures$93755043 997 $aUNINA