Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 611 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8
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Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 598-599) and index. |
Contents |
Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; Underspecification in the Lexicon: The Indo-European Root Cconcept; Multiple suffixes and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages; The Structure of the Indo-European Lexicon: Nominal Word Formation and the Secondary Lexicon; Underspecification and the noun/verb distinction: Late Archaic Chinese and Khmer; Underspecification and Coercion: Nouns and Nominalizations in German; What Kind of Events Do Achievements Describe?; Right Boundary Achievements under Conative Negation; Negating Right Boundary Achievements (Comments on Malink). |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Underspecification (Linguistics)
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Underspecification (Linguistics) |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Steube, Anita.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Discourse potential of underspecified structures. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008 (DLC) 2008029788 |
ISBN |
9783110209303 (electronic book) |
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3110209306 (electronic book) |
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1283396912 |
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9781283396912 |
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9783110205732 (alkaline paper) |
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3110205734 (alkaline paper) |
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