The composition of meaning from Lexeme to discourse (John Benjamins, 2004)
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On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written AfrikaansIndex; CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
In the modular design of generative theory the syntax-semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax-pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the 'pragmatic turn' in the linguistic theory, where content is partitioned into given and new information. In other words, the structural division of the clause has been subjected to criteria of information, or discourse structure. Both interfaces require a structurally descriptive inventory whose specific shapes can be motivated on theory-internal grounds only. The pr