Pragmatic Syntax

by Kiaer, Jieun

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Title Statements

Full title :Pragmatic Syntax / Jieun Kiaer.

Summary

"Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly underpins the processing of the language, in real time. This is a view that runs against the orthodoxy of linguistic theorizing for the last 50 years, which has insisted that languages have to be characterized in terms that make little or no reference to the dynamics of language use. This orthodox view fails to fit languages in which the verb has to be at the end of the clause - which encompasses more than half of the world's languages. Thus, as this book shows, these languages remain very problematic for conventional theories. Using a mixture of corpus methods, sentence structure analysis, prosody and psycholinguistic theory, Kiaer redresses this imbalance. The data features both Korean and English example and it functions as one of the very first general introductions to Dynamic Syntax available"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 226 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781623560218, 1623560217
oclc:ocn857981391
LC Classification:PL923
Dewey Decimal:415

1. Perspective Shift -- 2. Economically motivated syntax -- 3. Expressively motivated syntax -- 4. Challenges of incrementality in verb-final languages -- 5. Formal tools: modelling pragmatic motivation in syntax -- 6. Modelling nominal particles in Korean -- 7. Modelling verbal particles in Korean -- 8. Particle doubling: incrementality at work -- 9. The syntax of spoken dialogue -- 10. Conclusion.

Subjects

Coréen (Langue) -- Grammaire générative Coréen (langue) -- Syntaxe Engelska språket English language -- Grammar, Generative English language -- Syntax Korean language -- Grammar, Generative Korean language -- Syntax Koreanska språket LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Pragmatics Pragmatique Språkpragmatik Syntax