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Format: 1 online resource (636 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-283-39691-2 , 9786613396914 , 3-11-020930-6

Series Statement: Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8

Content: The volume demonstrates the interdependence of man's language capacity and his other conceptual capacities. This enables linguistic structures to be minimalised, and for extra-linguistic domains to provide much of the interpretations of sound and meaning. Underspecification is demonstrated in the word formation of Indo-European, Late Archaic Chinese and modern Khmer; on the word- and sentence levels by the event structures of German; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so-called free word order: German, Slavic languages, Arabic compared with English and the ton

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Section I: Underspecification in the lexicon -- , Underspecification in the Lexicon: The Indo-European Root Cconcept -- , Multiple suffixes and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages -- , The Structure of the Indo-European Lexicon: Nominal Word Formation and the Secondary Lexicon -- , Underspecification and the noun/verb distinction: Late Archaic Chinese and Khmer -- , Section II: Underspecification and coercion -- , Underspecification and Coercion: Nouns and Nominalizations in German -- , What Kind of Events Do Achievements Describe? -- , Right Boundary Achievements under Conative Negation -- , Negating Right Boundary Achievements (Comments on Malink) -- , Section III: Empirical evidence on the linearization of German -- , Comparing Linguistic Judgments and Corpus Frequencies as Windows on Grammatical Competence: A Study of Argument Linearization in German Clauses -- , Effects of Local Context on Argument Number and Verb Type Expectations -- , Prosody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right Node Raising in English -- , Section IV: Underspecification in information- and discourse structure -- , Russian Interrogatives and Intonational Categories -- , Prosody and Information Structure of Factive Embeddings in Russian -- , The Prosody of Adversative Constructions in West Slavic Languages -- , The Syntax of Contrast and Correction Readings of Polish Adversative Coordinate Structures -- , When the Negative Goes Missing: The Role of the Information Structure in Gapping Coordinations with but -- , Focus and Emphasis in Tone and Intonational Languages -- , Studies on the Acceptability of Object Movement to Spec,CP -- , Focus Particles in the German Middlefield -- , Word order, Clitics, and Agreement in Arabic Information Structure -- , Information Structure in Ancient Greek -- , Semantic Composition of German Information Structures with Operators -- , Semantic Contributions of the Left Periphery to Discourse Linking: The Case of Topics in the Prefield and Middlefield in German -- , Dimensions of Discourse: Presuppositions of (German) Connectors -- , Implicated Presuppositions -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-020573-4

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

DOI: 10.1515/9783110209303