30.4719, Books: Discomposition Redressed: Brandt

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:24:14
From: Corina Popp [popp at narr.de]
Subject: Discomposition Redressed: Brandt

 


Title: Discomposition Redressed 
Subtitle: Hidden Change, Modality, and Comparison in German 
Series Title: Studien zur deutschen Sprache  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
	   http://www.narr.de/
	

Book URL: https://www.narr.de/discomposition-redressed-18243-1 


Author: Patrick Brandt

Electronic: ISBN:  9783823392439 Pages: 304 Price: Europe EURO 94.40
Paperback: ISBN:  9783823382430 Pages: 304 Price: Europe EURO 118


Abstract:

Modern theoretical linguistics lives by the insight that the meanings of
complex expressions derive from the meanings of their parts and the way these
are composed. However, the currently dominating theories of the
syntax-semantics interface hastily relegate important aspects of meaning which
cannot readily be aligned with visible structure to empty projecting heads
non-reductively (mainstream Generative Grammar) or to the syntactic
construction holistically (Construction Grammar). This book develops an
alternative, compositional analysis of the hidden aspectual-temporal, modal
and comparative meanings of a range of productive constructions of which
pseudorefl exive, excessive and directional complement constructions take
center stage. Accordingly, a contradiction-inducing hence semantically
problematic part of literally coded meaning is locally ignored and
systematically realized „expatriately“ with respect to parts of structure that
achieve the indexical anchoring of propositional contents in terms of times,
worlds and standards of comparison, thus yielding the observed hidden
meanings.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): German (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)

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