Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure

Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure
Author: Paul Portner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110589869

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Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.


Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure
Language: en
Pages: 554
Authors: Paul Portner
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-19 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from l
Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure
Language: en
Pages: 633
Authors: Paul Portner
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-19 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from l
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: Knud Lambrecht
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-11-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht
On Information Structure, Meaning and Form
Language: en
Pages: 584
Authors: Kerstin Schwabe
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this
Sentence and Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Jacqueline Guéron
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules,