The discourse potential of underspecified structures [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anita Steube

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (636 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Underspecification (Linguistics)
• Soggetto non controllato: Grammar; Information structure; word formation
• Classificazione: ER 950
• Altri autori: SteubeAnita
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 598-599) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Underspecification in the lexicon -- Underspecification in the Lexicon: The Indo-European Root Cconcept -- Multiple suffixes and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages -- The Structure of the Indo-European Lexicon: Nominal Word Formation and the Secondary Lexicon -- Underspecification and the noun/verb distinction: Late Archaic Chinese and Khmer -- Section II: Underspecification and coercion -- Underspecification and Coercion: Nouns and Nominalizations in German -- What Kind of Events Do Achievements Describe? -- Right Boundary Achievements under Conative Negation -- Negating Right Boundary Achievements (Comments on Malink) -- Section III: Empirical evidence on the linearization of German -- Comparing Linguistic Judgments and Corpus Frequencies as Windows on Grammatical Competence: A Study of Argument Linearization in German Clauses -- Effects of Local Context on Argument Number and Verb Type Expectations -- Prosody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right Node Raising in English -- Section IV: Underspecification in information- and discourse structure -- Russian Interrogatives and Intonational Categories -- Prosody and Information Structure of Factive Embeddings in Russian -- The Prosody of Adversative Constructions in West Slavic Languages -- The Syntax of Contrast and Correction Readings of Polish Adversative Coordinate Structures -- When the Negative Goes Missing: The Role of the Information Structure in Gapping Coordinations with but -- Focus and Emphasis in Tone and Intonational Languages -- Studies on the Acceptability of Object Movement to Spec,CP -- Focus Particles in the German Middlefield -- Word order, Clitics, and Agreement in Arabic Information Structure -- Information Structure in Ancient Greek -- Semantic Composition of German Information Structures with Operators -- Semantic Contributions of the Left Periphery to Discourse Linking: The Case of Topics in the Prefield and Middlefield in German -- Dimensions of Discourse: Presuppositions of (German) Connectors -- Implicated Presuppositions -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The discourse potential of underspecified structures
• ISBN: 1-283-39691-2; 9786613396914; 3-11-020930-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782789603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Language, context, and cognition ; ; v. 8.