In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.
Information Structure, Discourse Studies and Grammatical Structure
Date:
2012
Table of Contents:
2012. v, 159 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction Bart Defrancq, Gudrun Rawoens and Els Tobback 1–5
Micro-Syntax, Macro-Syntax, Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Discourse: When Indexicals Target Discursively Subsidiary Information Francis Cornish 6–34
Influence of Relational and Referential Coherence on the Distribution of Coordinated Verb-Second Clauses in German and Dutch: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Case study Geert Stuyckens 35–64
The Rhetorical Relations in Complex Sentences with Quando (‘When’) in European Portuguese Purificação Silvano 65–83
Adverbials in German: More on Embedding and Focus Rainer Ludwig, Fabienne Salfner and Mathias Schenner 84–115
Emergent Correlative Concessivity: The Case of German Zwar… Aber ‘True … But’ Torsten Leuschner and Daan Van den Nest 116–142
The Role of Genre in Information Structuring in English Elma Kerz 143–159