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Title The discourse potential of underspecified structures / edited by Anita Steube.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 611 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8
Language, context, and cognition ; v. 8.
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.
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Subject Underspecification (Linguistics)
Underspecification (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Steube, Anita.
Other Form: Print version: Discourse potential of underspecified structures. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008 (DLC) 2008029788
ISBN 9783110209303 (electronic book)
3110209306 (electronic book)
1283396912
9781283396912
9783110205732 (alkaline paper)
3110205734 (alkaline paper)