Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level meaning. The contributions to the book resultfroma vivid exchange ofresearch id…
The impact of phonology on word order phenomena has become a central research agenda ever since the Minimalist Program emphasised the role of interface conditions on syntactic operations. 0 This book is a detailed study of extraposition from NP, which has traditionally been the …
This book is an in-depth study of information structure within semantic, syntactic and prosodic domains. The semantic classification of focus and topic phrases provides implications for compositionality and positional restrictions. Drawing on experimental studies with novel data…
Main description: Grammatische Strukturen verbinden Systeme des Denkens und Systeme des Sprechens und Zeigens, deren jeweilige Bedingungen kaum zueinander zu passen scheinen. Der Reparaturansatz betrachtet den regulären Umgang mit Übersetzungsproblemen innerhalb des grammatische…
The book contains ten papers discussing issues of the relation between syntax and morphology from the perspective of morphologically rich languages including, among others, Indo-European languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, Turkish, and Hungarian. The overall questio…
by Maienborn, Claudia, Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine, Lang, Ewald
fromInterface Explorations [IE]
by Maienborn, Claudia, Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine, Lang, Ewald
fromInterface Explorations [IE]
Unlike the notion of "argument" that is central to modern linguistic theorizing, the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the complementary notion "adjunct" so far have not attracted the attention they deserve. In this volume, leading experts in the field present current a…
by Alexiadou, Artemis, Rathert, Monika, Stechow, Arnim von
fromInterface Explorations [IE]
by Alexiadou, Artemis, Rathert, Monika, Stechow, Arnim von
fromInterface Explorations [IE]
The syntactic analysis of preverbal subjects has been the topic of debate for a wide variety of languages. This book establishes clausal word order preferences for Galician, a null-subject language of the Iberian Peninsula, based on quantitative and qualitative data. The experim…
