The composition of meaning : from Lexeme to discourse / edited by Alice ter Meulen, Werner Abraham.

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9789027295101

9781588115683

Title:

The composition of meaning : from Lexeme to discourse / edited by Alice ter Meulen, Werner Abraham.

Author:

Meulen, Alice G. B. ter.

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2004.

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1 online resource (vi, 230 pages).

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, v. 255

Contents:

On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written AfrikaansIndex; CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

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Semantics.

Linguistics.

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Meulen, Alice G. B. ter.

Abraham, Werner.

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2004

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2004.

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In the modular design of generative theory the syntax-semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax-pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the 'pragmatic turn' in the linguistic theory, where content is partitioned into given and new information. In other words, the structural division of the clause has been subjected to criteria of information, or discourse structure. Both interfaces require a structurally descriptive inventory whose specific shapes can be motivated on theory-internal grounds only. The present collection of original articles develops the concept of these interfaces further. The papers in the first section focus on the syntax-semantics interface, those in the second section on the syntax-pragmatics interface.

Alice G.B. Meulen; Werner AbrahamSusan OlsenElly GelderenHelen HoopWerner AbrahamPetra HendriksHelmut WeißKlaus HeusingerLászló Molnárfi

1 The\composition of meaning	p. 1
2 I. Mapping syntactic structure to meaning
3 Coordination in morphology and syntax	p. 17
4 Aspect, infinitival complements, and evidentials	p. 39
5 The\problem of unintelligibility	p. 69
6 VP-internal subjects as `unaccusatives'	p. 83
7 II. Mapping meaning to information structure
8 Either, both and neither in coordinate structures	p. 115
9 Information structure meetsMinimalist syntax	p. 139
10 Focus particles, sentence meaning, and discourse structure	p. 167
11 On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written Afrikaans	p. 195

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