Wh-scope Marking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wh-scope Marking write by Uli Lutz. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Wh-scope Marking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume deals with what the WH-movement parameter has to say about varieties of WH-dependencies in different languages. Section two introduces WH-scope marking and the related concept of partial WH-movement. Section three, the main approaches to WH-scope marking are introduced.
Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure
Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure write by Ivona Kučerová. This book was released on 2012-07-26. Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new information, is one of the most widely debated topics in linguistics. This volume incorporates exciting work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. The contributors are united in rejecting accounts that assume designated syntactic positions associated with specific information-structural interpretations, and aim instead to derive information-structural conditions on word order and other phenomena from the way syntax and syntax-external systems interact. Beyond this shared aim, the authors of the various chapters advocate a number of approaches, based on different types of data (syntactic, semantic, phonological/phonetic) from a range of languages. The book is aimed at specialists in syntax and/or information structure, as well as students and linguists in related fields keen to familiarise themselves with current issues in this fascinating area of research.
Dependency and Directionality
Dependency and Directionality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dependency and Directionality write by Marcel den Dikken. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Dependency and Directionality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality couched in a syntactic theory constructing trees from the top down.
Approaches to Meaning
Approaches to Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Meaning write by Daniel Gutzmann. This book was released on 2014-08-28. Approaches to Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The basic claims of traditional truth-conditional semantics are that the semantic interpretation of a sentence is connected to the truth of that sentence in a situation, and that the meaning of the sentence is derived compositionally from the semantic values meaning of its constituents and the rules that combine them. Both claims have been subject to an intense debate in linguistics and philosophy of language. The original research papers collected in this volume test the boundaries of this classic view from a linguistic and a philosophical point of view by investigating the foundational notions of composition, values and interpretation and their relation to the interfaces to other disciplines. They take the classical theories one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers speaker’s intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, meaning of fiction and literature, as well as vague and paradoxical utterances. Ede Zimmermann is a pioneering researcher in semantics whose students, friends, and colleagues have collected in this volume an impressive set of studies at the interfaces of semantics. How do meanings interact with the context and with intentions and beliefs of the people conversing? How do meanings interact with other meanings in an extended discourse? How can there be paradoxical meanings? Researchers interested in semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, anyone interested in foundational and empirical issues of meaning, will find inspiration and instruction in this wonderful volume. Kai von Fintel, MIT Department of Linguistics
Structure Preserved
Structure Preserved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Structure Preserved write by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart. This book was released on 2010. Structure Preserved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of Dutch and Germanic syntax, with important implications for the theory of grammar as a whole. Jan Koster was one of the central figures in this development, and he has continued to explore the structure preserving hypothesis throughout his illustrious career. This collection of articles by over forty syntacticians celebrates the advancements made in the study of syntax over the past forty years, reflecting on the structural principles underlying syntactic phenomena and emulating the approach to syntactic analysis embodied in Jan Koster's teaching and research.
