From words to discourse / / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach.

An area of linguistic research can be considered mature when the validity of theoretical and empirical results is tested cross-linguistically and when predictions from different languages influence and modify the course of theoretical development. The semantics/pragmatics interface poses a special c...

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Superior document:Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 10
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (366 pages)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Spanish past and future tenses - less (semantics) is more, S. Gennari
  • Tensed complements of perception verbs - issues in their temporal interpretation, A. Cipria
  • Spanish "aspectual" periphrases - ordering constraints and the distinction between situation and viewpoint aspect, B. Laca
  • Non-declarative sentences in Spanish - the case of the infinitive, X.R. Sequeiros
  • Aspect and situations - a situation semantics account of the semantic variability of Spanish "al-clauses", L. Alonoso-Ovalle
  • Mental spaces and epistemic attitudes - on the Spanish subjunctive/indicative alternation, F. Aliaga, E. de Bustos
  • Space accessibility and the pragmatic status of propositions, E. Mejias-Bikandi
  • Coercion and the stage/individual distinction, V. Escandell-Vidal, M. Leonetti
  • Some Spanish quantifier modifiers, R. Zuber
  • Demonstratives in context, J. Gutierrez-Rexach
  • Propositional NPIs and the scalar nature of polarity, J. Gutierrez-Rexach, S. Schwenter
  • Degree quantification and modal operators in Spanish, I. Bosque
  • The shifted reading of the Spanish simple past as dependent on presuppostion accommodation, R.J. Garcia Cordoba
  • On the interaction of syntax-semantics-pragmatics - a case study, J. Macia
  • Clitic doubling, null objects and clitic climbing in the Spanish of Corrientes, L. Colantoni
  • Spanish no, si - a particle of politeness, R. Vann et al.