Format:
Online-Ressource (XII, 315 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9783110346190
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9783110373523
Series Statement:
Mouton Textbook
Content:
Main description: This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.
Content:
Biographical note: Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen, Germany; Remus Gergel, University of Graz, Austria.
Content:
This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Preface; Contents; Part I - Structure and Meaning: An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics; Chapter I-1 Introduction to the field: Syntax and semantics; 1. The scientific study of language; 2. Goals and models in syntax and semantics; 2.1. Syntax; 2.2. Semantics; 3. About this book; 4. The structure of Part I; 5. Selected references; Chapter I-2 Categories, phrases and phrase structure rules; 1. Grammar makes reference to syntactic categories; 1.1. Categories; 1.2. Major lexical categories in English; 1.3. Crosslinguistic variation in the properties of categories; 2. Phrases
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2.1. Noun phrases2.2. First steps towards a formal model: phrase structure rules; 2.3. Other phrases; 3. Phrase Structure Grammar and phrase structures; 3.1. Phrase Structure Grammar; 3.2. Phrase structure trees and constituency; 3.3. Structural ambiguities; 4. Selected references; Chapter I-3 A systematic way of constructing phrases; 1. NPs revisited: more internal structure; 1.1. Intermediate levels: N'; 1.2. Complements vs. adjuncts; 1.3. The new set of phrase structure rules; 2. Evidence for intermediate projections within verb phrases; 2.1. First evidence for V'
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2.2. Complements and adjuncts again3. Generalizing from nouns and verbs: the X'' schema; 3.1. Adjectives and prepositions; 3.2. The four players: heads, complements, adjuncts, and specifiers; 4. A loose end: subcategorization; 5. Universal and variable aspects of syntactic structure; 6. Selected references; Chapter I-4 Clause structure and movement; 1. Clausal structure; 1.1. Finding the head of the clause; 1.2. Excursus: Mood selection in Romance and Balkan languages; 2. Head movement; 2.1. V-to-I movement and affix hopping; 2.2. I-to-C movement
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2.3. Differences in head movement: The case of French2.4. An intermediate summary and a note on the model of grammar; 3. Wh-movement; 3.1. Basic wh-questions; 3.2. Wh-phrases; 3.3. Embedded wh-questions; 3.4. Complex wh-questions: an analysis and corroborating evidence from German; 4. Selected references; Chapter I-5 Goals and methods in semantics; 1. What we have to account for; 1.1. Elements of reasoning: contradiction and consequence; 1.2. Several meanings: ambiguity; 1.3. Method: compositionality; 1.4. Semantic and pragmatic meaning; 2. Tutorial on sets; 2.1. Sets and elements
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2.2. Relations between sets2.3. Operations on sets; 3. Selected references; Chapter I-6 Composing sentence meanings - first steps; 1. Sentence meanings - some distinctions and a first composition rule; 2. Meanings of parts of sentences: first steps; 2.1. Referential NPs; 2.2. Predicates; 3. Selected references; Chapter I-7 Extending the theory; 1. Step by step composition - some trivial steps; 2. Modifiers; 2.1. Intersective modifiers; 2.2. Adjuncts with non-intersective meanings; 3. Relations; 3.1. Transitive verbs; 3.2. Transfer to prepositions; 3.3. Three-place relations
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3.4. Interpretability
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110300055
Additional Edition:
Print version Contrasting English and German Grammar : An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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German Studies
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English Studies
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9783110346190
