Semantics : Sentence and information structure / Edited by Paul Portner, Claudia Maienborn & Klaus von Heusinger

By:

Portner, Paul

Contributor(s):

Maienborn, Claudia

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2019.Description: vi, 548 p.: 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cmISBN:

9783110587227

Subject(s):

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics and Semantics

DDC classification:

23 401.43 POR

Contents:

1 Scope and binding / Anna Szabolcsi 2 Negation / Elena Herburger 3 Negative and positive polarity items / Anastasia Giannakidou 4 Coordination / Roberto Zamparelli 5 Questions / Manfred Krifka 6 Imperatives / Chung-hye Han 7 Copular clauses / Line Mikkelsen 8 Existential sentences / Louise McNally 9 Ellipsis / Ingo Reich 10 Information structure and truth-conditional semantics / Stefan Hinterwimmer 11 Topics / Craige Roberts 12 Discourse effects of word order variation / Gregory Ward and Betty J. Birner 13Cohesion and coherence / Andrew Kehler 14 Accessibility and anaphora / Bart Geurts 15 Discourse particles / Malte Zimmermann

Summary: Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Languages	Non-fiction	401.43 POR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		47156

1 Scope and binding / Anna Szabolcsi
2 Negation / Elena Herburger
3 Negative and positive polarity items / Anastasia Giannakidou
4 Coordination / Roberto Zamparelli
5 Questions / Manfred Krifka
6 Imperatives / Chung-hye Han
7 Copular clauses / Line Mikkelsen

8 Existential sentences / Louise McNally
9 Ellipsis / Ingo Reich
10 Information structure and truth-conditional semantics / Stefan Hinterwimmer
11 Topics / Craige Roberts
12 Discourse effects of word order variation / Gregory Ward and Betty J. Birner
13Cohesion and coherence / Andrew Kehler
14 Accessibility and anaphora / Bart Geurts
15 Discourse particles / Malte Zimmermann

Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles

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