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Nonsentential Constituents : a theory of grammatical structure and pragmatic interpretation.

Linguists traditionally have assumed that full sentence sources truncated by ellipsis rules account for the grammatical structure as well as the semantic interpretation of fragments like B below: A: What happened in 1974? B: A scandal in the White House. A sentential structure dominated by the initi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barton, Ellen L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Linguists traditionally have assumed that full sentence sources truncated by ellipsis rules account for the grammatical structure as well as the semantic interpretation of fragments like B below: A: What happened in 1974? B: A scandal in the White House. A sentential structure dominated by the initial node of S is reduced to a fragment by the operation of ellipsis, and it is the full sentential source that provides the semantic interpretation for the remaining fragment. Barton argues against both of these assumptions. She claims that independent major lexical categories like the example above a.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (265 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
ISBN:9789027283337
9027283338
1283174278
9781283174275
9786613174277
6613174270
ISSN:0922-842X ;