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Title The composition of meaning : from Lexeme to discourse / edited by Alice ter Meulen, Werner Abraham.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 230 pages).
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Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 255
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 255. 0304-0763
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written AfrikaansIndex; CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
Summary In the modular design of generative theory the syntax-semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax-pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the 'pragmatic turn' in the linguistic theory, where content is partitioned into given and new information. In other words, the structural division of the clause has been subjected to criteria of information, or discourse structure. Both interfaces require a structurally descriptive inventory whose specific shapes can be motivated on theory-internal grounds only. The pr.
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Subject Semantics.
Semantics.
Linguistics.
Linguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Meulen, Alice G. B. ter.
Abraham, Werner.
Other Form: Print version: Composition of meaning. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2004 (DLC) 2004055068
ISBN 9789027295101 (electronic book)
9027295107 (electronic book)
9781588115683
1588115682
1588115682