The composition of meaning : from Lexeme to discourse /

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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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Meulen, Alice G. B. ter, Abraham, Werner
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2004.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 255.
Temas:
Semantics.
Linguistics.
Semantics
Linguistics
Sémantique.
Linguistique.
semantics.
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
Semantiek.
Syntaxis.
Informatiestructuren (linguïstiek)
Signification.
Morphologie (Linguistique)
Syntaxe.
Discours.
Lexème.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • THE COMPOSITION OF MEANING
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC page
  • Table of contents
  • The composition of meaning
  • Note
  • References
  • Part I. Mapping syntactic structure to meaning
  • Coordination in morphology and syntax
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Coordination in syntax and morphology
  • 3. The compound template
  • 4. Instantiation of determinative and copulative readings
  • 5. Copulative c̀ompounds' in Sanskrit
  • 6. Semantic properties of copulative compounds in English
  • 6.1. True copulatives
  • 6.2. Copulatives as front forms
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References.
  • Appendix
  • Aspect, infinitival complements, and evidentials
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Are bare infinitives perfectives in English?
  • 3. Bare infinitives: Infinitival endings and perfectivity
  • 3.1. Perception verb complements (hence PVCs)
  • 3.2. The use of the simple present
  • 4. The reanalysis of -ing as ASP
  • 4.1. ASP
  • 4.2. Changes in ASP
  • 5. Perception verbs in Modern English and Dutch
  • 5.1. Three kinds of see
  • 5.2. More evidence
  • 6. Conclusion and further research
  • Notes
  • Abreviations used
  • References
  • The problem of unintelligibility
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Ineffability
  • 3. Unintelligibility
  • 4. Towards solving the problem
  • 5. Unintelligibility in a bidirectional OT framework
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • VP-internal subjects as ùnaccusatives'
  • 1. A brief intellectual history of B̀urzio's Generalization'1
  • 2. The (in)transitivity division
  • 3. What do ergative predicates have to do with the definiteness property in existential sentences?
  • 4. Toward an answer: The questions to be asked
  • and first answers: Aspect and Aktionsart perfectivity.
  • 5. Unaccusativity in German: A unified semantic-syntactic category (common denominator for eV-tests)
  • 6. T̀here is/are' as an alleged test for ergative predicates
  • 7. Theoretical aporia
  • 8. Ùnaccusative/ergative predicate': Simply a misnomer based on observational inadequacy?
  • 9. The paradoxality of Burzio's Generalization in German
  • 10. The perfect fit of the P̀erfectivity Account' in terms of theta role distribution
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part II. Mapping meaning to information structure
  • Either, both and neither in coordinate structures
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Either
  • 2.1. The distribution of either
  • 2.2. The interaction of either with intonation
  • 2.3. Scope ambiguities with either
  • 2.4. The contribution of either to the interpretation of the sentence
  • 2.5. Inclusive versus exclusive disjunction
  • 3. Both
  • 3.1. The distribution of both
  • 3.2. The interaction of both with intonation
  • 3.3. The contribution of both to the interpretation of the sentence
  • 3.4. Collective versus distributive readings
  • 4. Neither
  • 4.1. The distribution of neither
  • 4.2. The interaction of neither with intonation.

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