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Semantics : sentence and information structure /

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 attitude...

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Group Author: Portner, Paul. (Editor); Maienborn, Claudia (Editor); Heusinger, Klaus von (Editor)
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Mouton reader
Subjects:
Semantics.
Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: vi, 548 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9783110587227 (paperback) :
311058722X (paperback)
Index Number: P325
CLC: H030
Call Number: H030/S471
Contents: Scope and binding / Anna Szabolcsi -- Negation / Elena Herburger -- Negative and positive polarity items / Anastasia Giannakidou -- Coordination / Roberto Zamparelli -- Questions / Manfred Krifka -- Imperatives / Chung-hye Han -- Copular clauses / Line Mikkelsen -- Existential sentences / Louise McNally -- Ellipsis / Ingo Reich -- Information structure and truth-conditional semantics / Stefan Hinterwimmer -- Topics / Craige Roberts -- Discourse effects of word order variation / Gregory Ward and Betty J. Birner -- Cohesion and coherence / Andrew Kehler -- Accessibility and anaphora / Bart Geurts -- Discourse particles / Malte Zimmermann.

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