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Discourse and Grammar : From Sentence Types to Lexical Categories / ed. by Günther Grewendorf, Thomas Ede Zimmermann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; 112Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (341 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614512158
  • 9781614511601
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Sentence Types -- Implicatures in Discourse -- Permission and Choice -- Promises and Threats with Conditionals and Disjunctions -- Part II. Sentence Types and Clausal Peripheries -- Revisiting the CP of Clefts -- Delimitation Effects and the Cartography of the Left Periphery -- Sentence Types and the Japanese Right Periphery -- Part III. Clausal Properties of Lexical Categories -- On NPs and Clauses -- Discerning Default Datives: Some Properties of the Dative Case in German -- How Phase-Based Interpretations Dictate the Typology of Nominalizations -- Scope and Verb Meanings
Summary: Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as determined in syntax, and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse as characterized in pragmatic terms. Though none of the papers addresses this topic in its full breadth, they can all be seen to make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies. The first part of this collection comprises three papers (by Asher, Portner, and van Rooy & Franke) devoted to the semantics/pragmatics interface. The second part, with contributions by Rizzi, Saito, and Belletti, deals with the question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related to properties of functional categories in the clausal periphery.The last four papers (Bošković, van Riemsdijk, Bauke & Roeper, Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal functional categories, revealing unexpected parallels between clause structure and the internal structure, particularly in lexical categories.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Sentence Types -- Implicatures in Discourse -- Permission and Choice -- Promises and Threats with Conditionals and Disjunctions -- Part II. Sentence Types and Clausal Peripheries -- Revisiting the CP of Clefts -- Delimitation Effects and the Cartography of the Left Periphery -- Sentence Types and the Japanese Right Periphery -- Part III. Clausal Properties of Lexical Categories -- On NPs and Clauses -- Discerning Default Datives: Some Properties of the Dative Case in German -- How Phase-Based Interpretations Dictate the Typology of Nominalizations -- Scope and Verb Meanings

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Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as determined in syntax, and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse as characterized in pragmatic terms. Though none of the papers addresses this topic in its full breadth, they can all be seen to make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies. The first part of this collection comprises three papers (by Asher, Portner, and van Rooy & Franke) devoted to the semantics/pragmatics interface. The second part, with contributions by Rizzi, Saito, and Belletti, deals with the question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related to properties of functional categories in the clausal periphery.The last four papers (Bošković, van Riemsdijk, Bauke & Roeper, Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal functional categories, revealing unexpected parallels between clause structure and the internal structure, particularly in lexical categories.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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