Date: 25-Sep-2008 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures: Steube (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures
Series Title: Language, Context and Cognition 8
Published: 2008
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Editor: Anita Steube
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110205732 Pages: 611 Price: Europe EURO 108.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110205732 Pages: 611 Price: U.S. $ 128.00 Comment: For orders placed in North America only.
Abstract:
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 word formation of Indo-European, Late Archaic Chinese and modern Khmer; on the word- and sentence levels by the event structures of German; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so-called free word order: German, Slavic languages, Arabic compared with English and the tone language Hausa.
The volume is noteworthy due to the close cooperation between theoretical and experimental research. Within grammar, it has especially strengthened prosodic research and the syntax-phonology interrelations and their interpretations, and it has helped to create data bases for the relations within texts and to evaluate the findings.
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