The discourse potential of underspecified structures / edited by Anita Steube.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steube, Anita.

Series:

Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8.

Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underspecification (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ton

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 598-599) and index.

ISBN:

9786613396914

9781283396912

1283396912

9783110209303

3110209306

OCLC:

476206351