The discourse potential of underspecified structures /:

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 wo...

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Weitere Verfasser: Steube, Anita
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxiv, 611 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 598-599) and index.
ISBN:9783110209303
3110209306
1283396912
9781283396912