The Construction of Meaning
Published on 1. July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
263 pages
978-1-57586-376-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, including contributions from Eve Clark, Paul Kiparsky, Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl and Arnold M. Zwicky. The research covers a number of languages - English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and Quechua - and phenomena, including adverbial modification, classifiers, constructional meaning, control phenomena, evidentiality, events semantics, focus, presupposition, and quantification. This is a valuable volume for anyone interested in the latest developments in the study of meaning.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stanford
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
369 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57586-376-4 (9781575863764)
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David I. Beaver is assistant professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Luis D. Casillas Martinez and Brady Z. Clark are graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. Stefan Kaufmann is a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University and assistant professor of linguistics at Northwestern University.