Nonsentential constituents [[electronic resource] ] : a theory of grammatical structure and pragmatic interpretation / / Ellen L. Barton
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Barton Ellen L
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| Titolo: |
Nonsentential constituents [[electronic resource] ] : a theory of grammatical structure and pragmatic interpretation / / Ellen L. Barton
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 415 |
| Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
| Generative grammar | |
| Pragmatics | |
| Context (Linguistics) | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | NONSENTENTIAL CONSTITUENTS A Theory of Grammatical Structure and Pragmatic Interpretation; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Interacting Models in a Theory of Nonsentential Constituents; 2. Motivating a Nonsentential Constituent Structure Analysis; 3. A Competence Model of the Grammar of Nonsentential Constituent Structures; 4. The Representation of Linguistic Context in the Pragmatic Model; 5. The Representation of Conversational Context in the Pragmatic Model; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index of Topics; Index of Names |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Linguists traditionally have assumed that full sentence sources truncated by ellipsis rules account for the grammatical structure as well as the semantic interpretation of fragments like B below: A: What happened in 1974? B: A scandal in the White House. A sentential structure dominated by the initial node of S is reduced to a fragment by the operation of ellipsis, and it is the full sentential source that provides the semantic interpretation for the remaining fragment.Barton argues against both of these assumptions. She claims that independent major lexical categories like the example above a |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nonsentential constituents |
| ISBN: | 1-283-17427-8 |
| 9786613174277 | |
| 90-272-8333-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808868303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser., 2.