Cargando…
Shifting the focus : from static structures to the dynamics of interpretation /
Extending ideas from frameworks like Relevance Theory and Dynamic Syntax, the author upholds a radical position on modelling linguistic competence. In illustration, he presents a detailed study of a key meeting point of grammar and pragmatics: focus, in particular its syntactic expression in Hungari...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
2005.
|
| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ;
v. 14. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- front cover
- Preface
- 1. Language and Meaning
- Pragmatics and the study of grammar
- Competence and performance in theory and in method
- Pragmatics and the dynamicisation of grammar
- Focus and theory at the interfaces
- Semantics and the interpretation of natural languages
- Fundamentals
- Inference and semantics
- Pragmatic contributions to prepositional semantics
- Pragmatics and the assumption of compositionality
- Consequences of compositionality: illustrations from domain restriction
- A comparability restriction in exclusive readings
- Domain restricting indexicals
- Semantics: what it means
- Summary 1
- 2. Relevance Theory and Implications for Linguistic Structure
- Relevance Theory
- Some misconceptions about RT
- RT as a reduction of Gricean pragmatics
- Practical falsifiability
- A different perspective on language structure
- Encoded meaning as constraints on inference
- Inference in the course of processing
- Syntax: static structures versus instructions for interpretation
- Static syntax is unnecessary
- Abstraction and the accessibility of the object of study
- Grammar from a parsing perspective
- Well-formedness without syntactic representations
- The argument from production and parsing
- Formal and informal analysis
- Summary 2
- 3. The Hungarian Data
- Overview 3
- The data
- The basic positions of the Hungarian sentence
- Immediately pre-verbal position
- The interpretation of focus
- Verbal modifiers
- Other PV elements
- The focus position: syntactic analyses
- 'Single position' analyses
- The verb movement analysis
- Independent movement to multiple PV positions
- Summary: looking beyond conventional syntactic analysis
- 4. Focus and Grammar
- Overview 4
- The broader notion of focus
- The meaning of'focus'
- Focus and the encoded/inferred distinction
- A dynamic, RT approach to English
- The general meaning of focus (and presupposition)
- The nature of 'focus position' foci
- There is no simple'focus position'
- Narrow' and 'broad' focus
- Exhaustivity: are there two kinds of focus?
- Encoded versus inferred exhaustive focus
- The case against inferred exhaustivity
- The significance of the argument
- Exhaustivity as an inference in context
- Exhaustivity as an unmarked reading
- Dependence on (psychological) context
- Alternatives emerge from context
- Different contexts; different kinds of exhaustivity
- Non-exhaustive narrow foci are linguistically marked
- The it-cleft translation
- Quantity implicature
- Quantity implicature in RT
- The failure of encoded focus: the absence of exhaustivity
- Narrow focus and the presupposition of eventualities
- The costs and benefits of presupposed eventualities
- Non-exhaustive narrow foci and eventualities
- Summary 4
- 5. Focus and Quantifier Distribution
- Overview 5
- Quantificational projections and procedures
- Szabolcsi (1997b)
- Against the PredOp/Focus distinction
- The apparent difference
- Numerals, narrow focus and scalar implicature
- Constraints on TP and QP
- The monotonicity constraint
- Witness set representations and information structure
- Constraints on PV
- Proportionality and PV
- T$632.