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This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm.This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book, viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load, makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics.

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm.This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book, viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load, makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics.

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm.This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book, viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load, makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics.

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm.This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book, viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load, makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics.

The present collection of articles grew out of a workshop on Vietnamese linguistics in 2009 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. To our knowledge, no workshop with a comparable scope has been held outside of Vietnam for the past 20 years, or even longer. Given the important typological status of Vietnamese as a paradigm case of an isolating language, the volume covers the most relevant fields in linguistics: syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon. A guiding principle in assembling the chapters for this volume has been to take an inclusive stance as far as the commitment to different frameworks and research methodologies is concerned. All the contributors are proponents of recent developments in their individual areas of specialization. The editors have taken special care to cater for a readership which should be as broad as possible. This means that each contribution is self-contained and does not presuppose any knowledge of Vietnamese. The volume is recommended to general linguistis, comparative linguists, typologists and to researchers specializing in languages of East and South East Asia.

The present collection of articles grew out of a workshop on Vietnamese linguistics in 2009 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. To our knowledge, no workshop with a comparable scope has been held outside of Vietnam for the past 20 years, or even longer.

Given the important typological status of Vietnamese as a paradigm case of an isolating language, the volume covers the most relevant fields in linguistics: syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon. A guiding principle in assembling the chapters for this volume has been to take an inclusive stance as far as the commitment to different frameworks and research methodologies is concerned. All the contributors are proponents of recent developments in their individual areas of specialization. The editors have taken special care to cater for a readership which should be as broad as possible. This means that each contribution is self-contained and does not presuppose any knowledge of Vietnamese.

The volume is recommended to general linguistis, comparative linguists, typologists and to researchers specializing in languages of East and South East Asia.

Diese Studie, hervorgegangen aus der Habilitationsschrift des Autors, entwickelt die erste sowohl einheitliche als auch formal explizite Theorie der freien Dative des Deutschen. Traditionelle Dativtypen, die abgedeckt werden, umfassen den possessiven Dativ, den dativus (in)commodi sowie den dativus iudicantis. Die zentrale Hypothese des Buches lautet: Jeder freie Dativ bindet den Possessor eines Koarguments desselben finiten Teilsatzes. Damit ist der freie Dativ der Exponent einer Reflexivierungsdiathese, die viel mit kanonischer Reflexivität gemeinsam hat. Allerdings ist im Fall der freien Dativdiathese das Dativargument das Antezedens (und nicht das Subjekt), und das gebundene Pronomen ist immer ein Possessor im weiteren Sinne. Die besondere syntaktische Konfiguration, die mit diesem Bindungsverhältnis einhergeht – die Rösslsprungbindung – wird erstmalig als privilegiert erkannt und syntaktisch hergeleitet. Auf der Seite der thematischen Rollen wird der freie Dativ beschrieben als ein Experiencer, als eine Landmarke oder als Experiencer und Landmarke zugleich. Das Buch enthält darüberhinaus den ersten ausführlichen vergleichenden Abriss aktueller semantischer Bindungstheorien in deutscher Sprache.

Diese Studie, hervorgegangen aus der Habilitationsschrift des Autors, entwickelt die erste sowohl einheitliche als auch formal explizite Theorie der freien Dative des Deutschen. Traditionelle Dativtypen, die abgedeckt werden, umfassen den possessiven Dativ, den dativus (in)commodi sowie den dativus iudicantis. Die zentrale Hypothese des Buches lautet: Jeder freie Dativ bindet den Possessor eines Koarguments desselben finiten Teilsatzes. Damit ist der freie Dativ der Exponent einer Reflexivierungsdiathese, die viel mit kanonischer Reflexivität gemeinsam hat. Allerdings ist im Fall der freien Dativdiathese das Dativargument das Antezedens (und nicht das Subjekt), und das gebundene Pronomen ist immer ein Possessor im weiteren Sinne. Die besondere syntaktische Konfiguration, die mit diesem Bindungsverhältnis einhergeht – die Rösslsprungbindung – wird erstmalig als privilegiert erkannt und syntaktisch hergeleitet. Auf der Seite der thematischen Rollen wird der freie Dativ beschrieben als ein Experiencer, als eine Landmarke oder als Experiencer und Landmarke zugleich. Das Buch enthält darüberhinaus den ersten ausführlichen vergleichenden Abriss aktueller semantischer Bindungstheorien in deutscher Sprache.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, TbiLLC 2013, held in Gudauri, Georgia, in September 2013. The conference series is centered around the interaction between logic, language and computation. The contributions represent these three fields and the symposia aim to foster interaction between them.The book consists of 16 papers that were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. Each paper has passed through a rigorous peer-review process before being accepted for publication. The volume also contains two summaries of the tutorials that took place at the symposium: the one on admissible rules and the one on the formal semantics of aspectual meaning from a cross-linguistic perspective.