The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures

Published by De Gruyter 2008

The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures

Edited by: Anita Steube

Volume 8 in the series Language, Context and Cognition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209303

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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 word formation of Indo-European, Late Archaic Chinese and modern Khmer; on the word- and sentence levels by the event structures of German; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so-called free word order: German, Slavic languages, Arabic compared with English and the tone language Hausa.
The volume is noteworthy due to the close cooperation between theoretical and experimental research. Within grammar, it has especially strengthened prosodic research and the syntax-phonology interrelations and their interpretations, and it has helped to create data bases for the relations within texts and to evaluate the findings.

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Anita Steube, Leipzig, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
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Introduction Anita Steube Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Section I: Underspecification in the lexicon
Underspecification in the Lexicon: The Indo-European Root Cconcept Irene Balles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Multiple suffixes and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages Joachim Matzinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
The Structure of the Indo-European Lexicon: Nominal Word Formation and the Secondary Lexicon Dagmar Wodtko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Underspecification and the noun/verb distinction: Late Archaic Chinese and Khmer Walter Bisang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Section II: Underspecification and coercion
Underspecification and Coercion: Nouns and Nominalizations in German Veronika Ehrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
What Kind of Events Do Achievements Describe? Tatjana Heyde-Zybatov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Right Boundary Achievements under Conative Negation Marko Malink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Negating Right Boundary Achievements (Comments on Malink) Christopher Piñón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
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 Gerard Kempen and Karin Harbusch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Effects of Local Context on Argument Number and Verb Type Expectations Sandra Pappert, Johannes Schliesser and Thomas Pechmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Prosody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right Node Raising in English Gerrit Kentner, Caroline Féry and Kai Alter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Section IV: Underspecification in information– and discourse structure
Russian Interrogatives and Intonational Categories Yosuke Igarashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Prosody and Information Structure of Factive Embeddings in Russian Ina Mleinek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
The Prosody of Adversative Constructions in West Slavic Languages Marcela Adamíková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
The Syntax of Contrast and Correction Readings of Polish Adversative Coordinate Structures Dorothee Fehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
When the Negative Goes Missing: The Role of the Information Structure in Gapping Coordinations with but Sophie Repp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Focus and Emphasis in Tone and Intonational Languages Katharina Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Studies on the Acceptability of Object Movement to Spec,CP Gisbert Fanselow, Denisa Lenertová and Thomas Weskott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Focus Particles in the German Middlefield Stefan Sudhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Word order, Clitics, and Agreement in Arabic Information Structure Andreas Bulk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
Information Structure in Ancient Greek Rosemarie Lühr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
Semantic Composition of German Information Structures with Operators Anita Steube Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	513
Semantic Contributions of the Left Periphery to Discourse Linking: The Case of Topics in the Prefield and Middlefield in German Andreas Späth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
Dimensions of Discourse: Presuppositions of (German) Connectors Ingolf Max Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551
Implicated Presuppositions Uli Sauerland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	581
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	601

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 24
- Main content: 611
Keywords: Grammar; Information structure; word formation

eBook

Published: November 3, 2008
ISBN: 9783110209303

Hardcover

Published: August 19, 2008
ISBN: 9783110205732