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The discourse potential of underspecified structures /

The volume demonstrates the interdependence of man?s language capacity and his other conceptual capacities. This enables linguistic structures to be minimalised, and for extra-linguistic domains to provide much of the interpretations of sound and meaning. Underspecification is demonstrated in the wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Steube, Anita
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; Underspecification in the Lexicon: The Indo-European Root Cconcept; Multiple suffixes and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages; The Structure of the Indo-European Lexicon: Nominal Word Formation and the Secondary Lexicon; Underspecification and the noun/verb distinction: Late Archaic Chinese and Khmer; Underspecification and Coercion: Nouns and Nominalizations in German; What Kind of Events Do Achievements Describe?; Right Boundary Achievements under Conative Negation; Negating Right Boundary Achievements (Comments on Malink).