Topic Focus Articulation Tripartite Structures And Semantic Content

Author : Eva Hajicová
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401590125
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content written by Eva Hajicová and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova and Sgall (HS in the sequel), topic-focus articulation has long been a central object of study, and it has long been a tenet of Prague school linguistics that topic-focus structure has systematic relevance to meaning. Within the formal semantics tradition represented by Partee (BHP in the sequel), focus has much more recently become an area of concerted investigation, but a number of the semantic phenomena to which focus is relevant have been extensively investi gated and given explicit compositional semantic-analyses. The emergence of 'tripartite structures' (see Chapter 2) in formal semantics and the partial simi larities that can be readily observed between some aspects of tripartite structures and some aspects of Praguian topic-focus articulation have led us to expect that a closer investigation of the similarities and differences in these different theoretical constructs would be a rewarding undertaking with mutual benefits for the further development of our respective theories and potential benefit for the study of semantic effects of focus in other theories as well.

Author : Eva Hajicova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789401590136
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content written by Eva Hajicova and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carsten Breul
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227928
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus Structure in Generative Grammar written by Carsten Breul and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in great detail with respect to syntax, intonation and semantics within the framework of the Minimalist Program. It is shown that the incorporation of focus structure into syntax offers new perspectives for a solution of vexing problems in syntax and semantics. For example, fronting (preposing, 'topicalisation') is treated as a syntactic operation which clearly belongs to core grammar, i.e. is not optional or 'stylistic'; the semantic notion of quantifier raising is dispensed with in favour of a focus structural treatment of phenomena which gave rise to it. The book appeals to generative linguists and to functional linguists who do not believe in an unbridgeable gap between the formal and functional analysis of language.

Author : Zoltan Gendler Szabo
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019151439X
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics versus Pragmatics written by Zoltan Gendler Szabo and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-01-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: to follow

Author : Anita Steube
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110905892
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Structure written by Anita Steube and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band behandelt die Schnittstelle zwischen Pragmatik, Grammatik und Psycholinguistik bzw. Neurolinguistik. Pragmatisch bedingt sind die Zurechnungen von Satzteilen zur bekannten oder zur Neuinformation im Text. Realisiert werden die pragmatischen Gliederungen aber in der Grammatik. Die theoretische Modellierung erfolgte in generativen Grammatiken, in optimalitätstheoretischen Modellen oder anhand der Alternativsemantik. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt auf Korrekturkonstruktionen und auf Hutkonturen. Erstere zeichnen sich durch Kontrastakzente aus und Letztere sind zweigipflig akzentuiert. Um die Prosodie weiterzuentwickeln, beschäftigt sich die Hälfte der Beiträge mit dem psycholinguistischen und neurophysiologischen Nachweis der Intonationsparameter und mit ihrer Auswertung im Kontext. Von der Kontrastintonation geht der Band dann über zur Typologie von Kontrastkonstruktionen, zu ihrem grammatischen Vergleich und ihrer textuellen Verwendung.

Author : Eva Haji?ová
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781556196744
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prague Linguistic Circle Papers written by Eva Haji?ová and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-12-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first one of the revived series of "Travaux," which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. The first volume of the new series is divided into five sections: 1. Introductory papers characterizing the development of the Prague School in the recent decades; 2. Methodological issues of structural and functional linguistics; 3. Sentence structure; 4. Discourse patterns; 5. Theory of literature. In accordance with the tradition, the volume contains contributions concerning issues of principle, empirical linguistic studies, and also papers from the theory of literature.

Author : Vaclav Matousek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642042082
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Text, Speech and Dialogue written by Vaclav Matousek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This volume constitutes seleted papers from the 12th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2009, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2009. This volume contains a collection of submitted papers presented at the conference which were thoroughly reviewed by three members of the conference reviewing team consisting of more than 40 top specialists in the conference topic areas. A total of 53 accepted papers out of 112 submitted, altogether contributed 127 authors and co-authors, were selected for presentation at the conference by the program committee and then included in this book. Theoretical and more general contributions were presented in common (plenary) sessions. Problem oriented sessions as well as panel discussions then brought together the specialists in limited problem areas with the aim of exchanging knowledge and skills resulting from research projects of all kinds.

Author : Stefan Sudhoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027288569
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus Particles in German written by Stefan Sudhoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present a particularly well-suited subject for the investigation of the modularity of grammar in general. The first part of the book deals with the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of focus particle constructions and results in a modular account of the relation between their word order, information structure, and meaning. The second part presents a corpus study and several speech production and perception experiments investigating the prosodic realization of the constructions. The integration of these two lines of research results in a comprehensive theory of focus particles and of the interaction of grammar and information structure in German.

Author : Elin McCready
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401788138
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics written by Elin McCready and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.

Author : Peter Bosch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521583053
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus written by Peter Bosch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers examines the theoretical, psychological and descriptive approaches to focus.