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1st ed. |
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1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 14
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-305) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- front cover -- Preface -- 1. Language and Meaning -- Pragmatics and the study of grammar -- Competence and performance in theory and in method -- Pragmatics and the dynamicisation of grammar -- Focus and theory at the interfaces -- Semantics and the interpretation of natural languages -- Fundamentals -- Inference and semantics -- Pragmatic contributions to prepositional semantics -- Pragmatics and the assumption of compositionality -- Consequences of compositionality: illustrations from domain restriction -- A comparability restriction in exclusive readings -- Domain restricting indexicals -- Semantics: what it means -- Summary 1 -- 2. Relevance Theory and Implications for Linguistic Structure -- Relevance Theory -- Some misconceptions about RT -- RT as a reduction of Gricean pragmatics -- Practical falsifiability -- A different perspective on language structure -- Encoded meaning as constraints on inference -- Inference in the course of processing -- Syntax: static structures versus instructions for interpretation -- Static syntax is unnecessary -- Abstraction and the accessibility of the object of study -- Grammar from a parsing perspective -- Well-formedness without syntactic representations -- The argument from production and parsing -- Formal and informal analysis -- Summary 2 -- 3. The Hungarian Data -- Overview 3 -- The data -- The basic positions of the Hungarian sentence -- Immediately pre-verbal position -- The interpretation of focus -- Verbal modifiers -- Other PV elements -- The focus position: syntactic analyses -- 'Single position' analyses -- The verb movement analysis -- Independent movement to multiple PV positions -- Summary: looking beyond conventional syntactic analysis -- 4. Focus and Grammar -- Overview 4 -- The broader notion of focus -- The meaning of'focus' -- Focus and the encoded/inferred distinction -- A dynamic, RT approach to English -- The general meaning of focus (and presupposition) -- The nature of 'focus position' foci -- There is no simple'focus position' -- Narrow' and 'broad' focus -- Exhaustivity: are there two kinds of focus? -- Encoded versus inferred exhaustive focus -- The case against inferred exhaustivity -- The significance of the argument -- Exhaustivity as an inference in context -- Exhaustivity as an unmarked reading -- Dependence on (psychological) context -- Alternatives emerge from context -- Different contexts; different kinds of exhaustivity -- Non-exhaustive narrow foci are linguistically marked -- The it-cleft translation -- Quantity implicature -- Quantity implicature in RT -- The failure of encoded focus: the absence of exhaustivity -- Narrow focus and the presupposition of eventualities -- The costs and benefits of presupposed eventualities -- Non-exhaustive narrow foci and eventualities -- Summary 4 -- 5. Focus and Quantifier Distribution -- Overview 5 -- Quantificational projections and procedures -- Szabolcsi (1997b) -- Against the PredOp/Focus distinction -- The apparent difference -- Numerals, narrow focus and scalar implicature -- Constraints on TP and QP -- The monotonicity constraint -- Witness set representations and information structure -- Constraints on PV -- Proportionality and PV --T$632. |
| Summary |
Extending ideas from frameworks like Relevance Theory and Dynamic Syntax, the author upholds a radical position on modelling linguistic competence. In illustration, he presents a detailed study of a key meeting point of grammar and pragmatics: focus, in particular its syntactic expression in Hungarian. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Focus (Linguistics)
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Focus (Linguistics) |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wedgwood, Daniel. Shifting the focus. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2005 0080445772 (OCoLC)60370946 |
| ISBN |
0080457312 (electronic book) |
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9780080457314 (electronic book) |
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0080445772 (Cloth) |
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