Language, Context and Cognition – serie
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16 produkter
Information Structure
Theoretical and Empirical Aspects
Av Anita Steube
Inbunden, 2004
2306 kr
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The first volume of the series is devoted to the subjects "information structure" and "contrast". The working hypothesis is that, apart from the use of lexical indication, the expression of contrast vs. correction is primarily carried by the intonation contour as a means for indicating scope and …
Time Window of Language
The Interaction between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Knowledge in the Temporal Interpretation of German and English Texts
Inbunden, 2005
2306 kr
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Focusing on English and German examples, the study deals with the temporal interpretation of texts in non-aspect languages. The author presumes that a coherent interpretation of a text results from a complex interaction between linguistic and extra-linguistic information. The study presents a …
Methods in Empirical Prosody Research
Av Stefan Sudhoff, Denisa Lenertova m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2306 kr
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This book contains a collection of cutting-edge papers on methodological aspects of prosody research. Current approaches to the gathering, treatment, and interpretation of prosodic data are discussed by experts in the field, illustrated by their own empirical research. Contributions focus on the …
Determinierung unter Defektivität des Determinierersystems
Informationsstrukturelle und aspektuelle Voraussetzungen der Nominalreferenz slawischer Sprachen im Vergleich zum Deutschen
Inbunden, 2006
2146 kr
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The monograph explains how the lack of a ‘nominal article’ category in some Slavic languages influences nominal reference and textual coherence. The book demonstrates that the missing category cannot be represented by the absence of the functional category D0, but that a phonologically empty …
Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation
Av Johannes Dölling, Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
3192 kr
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This volume addresses the problem of how language expresses conceptual information on event structures and how such information can be reconstructed in the interpretation process. The papers present important new insights into recent semantic and syntactic research on the topic. The volume deals …
Interfaces and Interface Conditions
Inbunden, 2007
2306 kr
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The volume contains articles that focus on the interface between linguistic and conceptual knowledge. The issues addressed in the volume include the preconditions of every level of the language system that are required for the transformation of linguistic information into conceptual …
Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures
Av Anita Steube
Inbunden, 2008
3111 kr
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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 …
Musik und Sprachprosodie
Av Simone Falk
Inbunden, 2009
2700 kr
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Wo liegen die Schnittstellen von Sprache und Musik? Kann Gesang prosodische Merkmale der Sprache transportieren? Ist er ein wichtiger Faktor für Kinder im frühen Spracherwerb? Diese Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches, das erstmals die Prosodie alltäglicher gesungener Sprache untersucht. Im …
Diachronic Studies on Information Structure
Language Acquisition and Change
Av Gisella Ferraresi, Rosemarie Lühr
Inbunden, 2010
2759 kr
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In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted. The discussion is mainly being held in syntax, but also in the fields of semantics and …
Bridging Inferences
Constraining and Resolving Underspecification in Discourse Interpretation
Inbunden, 2011
2511 kr
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This book presents work on bridging inferences in discourse interpretation. It develops a formalization that permits integrating indirect anaphora in the construction of a structured discourse representation. From a broader perspective, it provides a suitable dynamic-logic framework which can …
Big Events, Small Clauses
The Grammar of Elaboration
Av Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Dag Haug
Inbunden, 2012
2759 kr
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This book investigates specific syntactic means of event elaborationacross seven Indo-European languages (English, German, Norwegian,French, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek): bare and comitative smallclauses (“absolutes”), participle constructions and related clause-like butnon-finite adjuncts …
Understanding Prosody
The Role of Context, Function and Communication
Inbunden, 2012
2390 kr
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The volume represents a state-of-the-art snapshot of the research on prosody for phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists. It covers well-known models and languages. How are prosodies linked to speech sounds? What are the relations between prosody and grammar? What does speech perception …
Semantics-Pragmatics Controversy
Inbunden, 2014
1805 kr
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Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. Taking as a starting point the notorious difficulty of differentiating …
Phonotaktisches Wissen
Zur prä-attentiven Verarbeitung phonotaktischer Illegalität
Inbunden, 2014
1525 kr
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Human languages are very economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of an utterance only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Thus, conceptual underspecification and context-dependence are essential properties, which vary from one …
Aspects of Slavic Linguistics
Formal Grammar, Lexicon and Communication
Av Olav Mueller-Reichau, Marcel Guhl
Inbunden, 2017
1805 kr
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The present volume offers a selection of papers on current issues in Slavic languages. It takes stock of the past 20 years of linguistic research at the Department of Slavic Studies at Leipzig University. Within these two decades, the scientific writing, teaching, and organization done in this …
Topik, Fokus und Informationsstatus
Modellierung am Material nordwestsibirischer Sprachen
Inbunden, 2020
1794 kr
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Informationsstruktur bzw. Informationsstrukturierung ist ein Forschungsfeld, das seit einiger Zeit v.a. aus sprachtheoretischer Perspektive intensiv bearbeitet wird. Mit der sich stetig verbessernden Dokumentation und Beschreibung sibirischer Sprachen sind auch einige informationsstrukturelle …
