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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heusinger, Klaus von, Editor.

Maienborn, Claudia, Editor.

Portner, Paul, Editor.

Series:

Mouton reader.

Mouton Reader

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (554 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110587319

3110587319

9783110589863

3110589869

OCLC:

1091663458