Editor: Alice G Ter Meulen, University of Groningen
Editor: Werner Abraham, University of Groningen
Hardback: ISBN: 1588115682 Pages: vi, 232 pp. Price: U.S. $ 119.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247692 Pages: vi, 232 pp. Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Abstract:
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.
Table of contents
The composition of meaning
Alice ter Meulen and Werner Abraham 1
I. Mapping syntactic structure to meaning
Coordination in morphology and syntax: The case of copulative compounds
Susan Olsen 17
Aspect, infinitival complements, and evidentials
Elly van Gelderen 39
The problem of unintelligibility
Helen de Hoop 69
VP-internal subjects as 'unaccusatives': Burzio's 'Object Account' vs. the
'Perfectivity Account'
Werner Abraham 83
II. Mapping meaning to information structure
Either, both and neither in coordinate structures
Petra Hendriks 115
Information structure meets Minimalist syntax: On argument order and case
morphology in Bavarian
Helmut Weiß 139
Focus particles, sentence meaning, and discourse structure
Klaus von Heusinger 167
On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written Afrikaans
László Molnárfi 195
Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
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