The Composition of Meaning
From lexeme to discourse
Published on 31. October 2004
Book
Hardback
230 pages
978-1-58811-568-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 is partitioned into given and new information. In other words, the structural division of the clause has been subjected to criteria of information, or discourse structure. Both interfaces require a structurally descriptive inventory whose specific shapes can be motivated on theory-internal grounds only. The present collection of original articles develops the concept of these interfaces further. The papers in the first section focus on the syntax-semantics interface, those in the second section on the syntax-pragmatics interface.
Reviews / Votes
[...] a welcome addition to the body of research on the syntax-sementics and syntax pragmatics interfaces. -- Catherine R. Fortin, University of Michigan, USA, on Linguist List Vol.16.1499 (2005)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58811-568-3 (9781588115683)
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Content
1. The composition of meaning (by Meulen, Alice G.B. ter); 2. I. Mapping syntactic structure to meaning; 3. Coordination in morphology and syntax: The case of copulative compounds (by Olsen, Susan); 4. Aspect, infinitival complements, and evidentials (by Gelderen, Elly van); 5. The problem of unintelligibility (by Hoop, Helen de); 6. VP-internal subjects as 'unaccusatives': Burzio's 'Object Account' vs. the 'Perfectivity Account' (by Abraham, Werner); 7. II. Mapping meaning to information structure; 8. Either, both and neither in coordinate structures (by Hendriks, Petra); 9. Information structure meetsMinimalist syntax: On argument order and case morphology in Bavarian (by Weiss, Helmut); 10. Focus particles, sentence meaning, and discourse structure (by Heusinger, Klaus von); 11. On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written Afrikaans (by Molnarfi, Laszlo)