
The Composition of Meaning
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- 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 `compounds' 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 `unaccusatives'
- 1. A brief intellectual history of `Burzio'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. `There is/are' as an alleged test for ergative predicates
- 7. Theoretical aporia
- 8. `Unaccusative/ergative predicate': Simply a misnomer based on observational inadequacy?
- 9. The paradoxality of Burzio's Generalization in German
- 10. The perfect fit of the `Perfectivity 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
- 4.3. The contribution of neither to the interpretation of the sentence
- 5. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Information structure meets Minimalist syntax*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Case system of (Middle) Bavarian
- 3. Word order in (Middle) Bavarian
- 4. Scrambling and the MP
- 4.1. Object scrambling: Data
- 4.2. Object scrambling: Explanation(s)
- 4.3. CS and the information structure
- 5. The Principle of Strong Morphology
- 6. Other languages showing similar properties
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Focus particles, sentence meaning, and discourse structure
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The conceptual background of the information dichotomy
- 3. Semantic theories of association with focus
- 3.1. Structured Meanings
- 3.2. Alternative Semantics
- 3.3. Comparing semantic theories of information structure
- 4. Association with focus in definite NPs
- 5. Discourse structure
- 6. Foreground-Background Semantics
- 7. Summary
- Notes
- References
- On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written Afrikaans
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Empirical data
- 3. Discussion: The structure of negation in Afrikaans
- 3.1. General conditions of Neg-percolation
- 3.2. Negative quantifiers in Spec-Neg
- 4. The puzzle - the spell-out of additional negation copies in the scope domain
- 5. Towards a solution - the identification of functional domains
- 6. Interpreting negation in the spoken language - negation copies as scope-shibboleths
- 6.1. Negative spread as a rhema-shibboleth
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
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