Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure /

Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure / / ed. by Paul Portner, Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger.

Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitude...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Birner, Betty J.,
Geurts, Bart,
Giannakidou, Anastasia,
Han, Chung-hye,
Herburger, Elena,
Hinterwimmer, Stefan,
Kehler, Andrew,
Krifka, Manfred,
McNally, Louise,
Mikkelsen, Line,
Reich, Ingo,
Roberts, Craige,
Szabolcsi, Anna,
Ward, Gregory,
Zamparelli, Roberto,
Zimmermann, Malte,
HerausgeberIn:
Heusinger, Klaus von,
Maienborn, Claudia,
Portner, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Mouton Reader
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 548 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Scope and binding
  • 2. Negation
  • 3. Negative and positive polarity items
  • 4. Coordination
  • 5. Questions
  • 6. Imperatives
  • 7. Copular clauses
  • 8. Existential sentences
  • 9. Ellipsis
  • 10. Information structure and truth conditional semantics
  • 11. Topics
  • 12. Discourse effects of word order variation
  • 13. Cohesion and coherence
  • 14. Accessibility and anaphora
  • 15. Discourse particles
  • Index

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