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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: Case, Word Order and Prominence
Subtitle: Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension
Edited By: Monique Lamers
Peter De Swart
URL: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/book/978-94-007-1462-5?changeHeader
Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
Description:

Language users access an array of information during the construction and interpretation of utterances, including grammatical rules and situational knowledge. The argument structure of verbs, which establishes the syntactic and semantic relationships between arguments, plays a key role in this process. This book reviews recent psycholinguistic and theoretical investigations into the interplay between structural syntactic relations and role semantics. It focuses on the interaction of case marking and word order with semantic prominence features, such as animacy, addressing the interaction of these different sorts of information from theoretical, time-insensitive and incremental perspectives or a combination thereof. Taking a broad cross-linguistic perspective, this book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the interaction of case, word order and prominence with argument structure, and their effects on argument realization and interpretation in language.

Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Springer
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Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
Syntax

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9400714629
ISBN-13: 9789400714625
Pages: 344
Prices: Europe EURO 99.95