The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures /

The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures / / ed. by Anita Steube.

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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 wo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Adamíková, Marcela,
Alter, Kai,
Balles, Irene,
Bisang, Walter,
Bulk, Andreas,
Ehrich, Veronika,
Fanselow, Gisbert,
Fehrmann, Dorothee,
Féry, Caroline,
Harbusch, Karin,
Hartmann, Katharina,
Heyde-Zybatov, Tatjana,
Igarashi, Yosuke,
Kempen, Gerard,
Kentner, Gerrit,
Lenertová, Denisa,
Lühr, Rosemarie,
Malink, Marko,
Matzinger, Joachim,
Max, Ingolf,
Mleinek, Ina,
Pappert, Sandra,
Pechmann, Thomas,
Piñón, Christopher,
Repp, Sophie,
Sauerland, Uli,
Schliesser, Johannes,
Späth, Andreas,
Steube, Anita,
Sudhoff, Stefan,
Weskott, Thomas,
Wodtko, Dagmar,
HerausgeberIn:
Steube, Anita,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Language, Context and Cognition , 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (611 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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