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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Pronouns – Grammar and Representation
Edited By: Horst J. Simon
Heike Wiese
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 52
Description:

The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and interpretation of these constructions. They come from different theoretical approaches and methodological backgrounds and take into account data from a wide range of Indoeuropean and non-Indoeuropean languages. Bringing together a cross-section of recent research on the grammar and representation of pronouns, the volume offers a kaleidoscope of studies united by the common topic of pronouns as a domain of language that exemplarily shows the interaction of different components responsible for computational (syntactic and semantic), lexical, and discourse-pragmatic processes. Table of ContentsList of contributors vii•viii Preface ix Glossary xi Grammatical properties of pronouns and their representation: An exposition Heike Wiese and Horst J. Simon 1•21 Structuring the bundle: A universal morphosyntactic feature geometry Heidi Harley and Elizabeth Ritter 23•39 ‘We’ rules: The impact of an inclusive/exclusive opposition on the paradigmatic structure of person marking Michael Cysouw 41•62 Reference devices in Sinhala Neelakshi Chandrasena Premawardhena 63•83 Indefinite pronouns: Morphology and syntax in cross-linguistic perspective Helmut Weiss 85•107 Reference and representation of pronouns Klaus von Heusinger 109•135 The dynamics of syntax: Anaphora, relative pronouns and crossover Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol 137•160 The third person pronoun in tripartite verbless clauses of umran Hebrew Jacobus A. Naudé 161•181 Pronominal nouns Phoevos Panagiotidis 183•203 Harmonic alignment and the hierarchy of pronouns in German Gereon Müller 205•232 Cortical reflections of two pronominal relations Maria Mercedes Piñango 233•252 Pronoun omission in Dutch and German agrammatic speech Esterella Roo 253•284 Language index 285•286 Subject index 287•292

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Typology

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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 902722773X
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: xii, 294 pp.
Prices: EUR 110.00
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 1588112519
ISBN-13: 9781588112514
Pages: xii, 294 pp.
Prices: U.S. $ 162