Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110209303
Series Statement:
Language, Context and Cognition 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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110205732
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The discourse potential of underspecified structures Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2008 ISBN 9783110205732
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Unterspezifikation
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110209303
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Steube, Anita 1939-2021
