15.3165, Books: Pragmatics/Semantics/Syntax: Meulen, Abraham(Eds)

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From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Composition of Meaning: Meulen, Abraham (Eds) 
 

	
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:59:17
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Composition of Meaning: Meulen, Abraham (Eds) 
 

Title: The Composition of Meaning 
Subtitle: From lexeme to discourse 
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 255  

Publication Year: 2004 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20255 


Editor: Alice G Ter Meulen, University of Groningen
Editor: Werner Abraham, University of Groningen

Hardback: ISBN: 1588115682 Pages: vi, 232 pp. Price: U.S. $ 119.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247692 Pages: vi, 232 pp. Price: Europe EURO 99.00


Abstract:

In the modular design of generative theory, the syntax-semantics interface
has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The
syntax-pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one
may call the 'pragmatic turn' in the linguistic theory, where content is
partitioned into given and new information. In other words, the structural
division of the clause has been subjected to criteria of information, or
discourse structure. Both interfaces require a structurally descriptive
inventory whose specific shapes can be motivated on theory-internal grounds
only. The present collection of original articles develops the concept of
these interfaces further. The papers in the first section focus on the
syntax-semantics interface, those in the second section on the
syntax-pragmatics interface. 


Table of contents

The composition of meaning 
Alice ter Meulen and Werner Abraham 1 
 
I. Mapping syntactic structure to meaning 
  
Coordination in morphology and syntax: The case of copulative compounds 
Susan Olsen 17  

Aspect, infinitival complements, and evidentials 
Elly van Gelderen 39  

The problem of unintelligibility 
Helen de Hoop 69  

VP-internal subjects as 'unaccusatives': Burzio's 'Object Account' vs. the
'Perfectivity Account' 
Werner Abraham 83  

II. Mapping meaning to information structure 
  
Either, both and neither in coordinate structures 
Petra Hendriks 115 
 
Information structure meetsMinimalist syntax: On argument order and case
morphology in Bavarian 
Helmut Weiß 139  

Focus particles, sentence meaning, and discourse structure 
Klaus von Heusinger 167  

On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written Afrikaans 
László Molnárfi 195 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (Language Code: ENG)
	
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