Interfaces and interface conditions. Language, context, and cognition Vol. 6.

Späth, Andreas (Ed.):

ISBN 10: 311019547X / ISBN 13: 9783110195477

Published by Berlin ; New York : de Gruyter, 2007

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XV, 385 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Semantic Form as Interface. Manfred Bierwisch -- Verb Meaning: How much Semantics is in the Lexicon? Johannes Dölling & Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow -- 'Was noch?' Navigating in Question Answer Discourse. Regine Eckardt -- Old and new propositions. Kerstin Schwabe -- Deriving selectional properties of exclamative' predicates. Klaus Abels -- German w-clauses at the left and right periphery of copular sentences. Ilse Zimmermann -- On the Syntax of Prepositional Phrases. Josef Bayer & Markus Bader -- The Structure of Events in Word Formation. Rosemarie Lühr -- The lexical content of connectors and its interplay with intonation. An interim balance on sentential connection in discourse. Ewald Lang & Marcela Adamiková -- Contextual Boundness and Contrast in the Prague Dependency Treebank. Eva Hajicová, Petr Sgall & Katerina Veseld -- On the Semantic Foundations of the Contrastive Focus Within a Lexicalist Approach. Andreas Späth -- Focus on focus: The brain's electrophysiological response to focus particles and accents in German. Stefan Heim & Kai Alter -- Corpus- and psycholinguistic investigations of linguistic constraints on German object order. Sandra Pappert, Johannes Schließer, Dirk P. Janssen & Thomas Pechmann -- Some contextual effects of aboutness topics in German. Werner Frey -- Interfaces, (Non-)Compositionality, Information Structure and Presupposition. Ingolf Max. ISBN 9783110195477 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 675 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interfaces and interface conditions. Language, context, and cognition Vol. 6.
• Publisher: Berlin ; New York : de Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 311019547X
• ISBN 13: 9783110195477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistik

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Synopsis

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 representations. In accordance with Chomsky’s Minimalist language model, the language system is embedded into the performative systems where language is a part of the cognitive competence of human beings, i.e. system of articulation and perception (A/P) and the conceptual-intentional system (C/I). During the formation of linguistic structures, every performative system obtains well-formed representations as its input information. The articles of the volume show how interface conditions determine the linguistic representations on each level of the linguistic system. Interface conditions result in requirements for the ordering of linguistic elements. The syntactic transformation achieves a point, where the linguistic structure formation branches to two distinct representational levels. Both levels deliver instructions for the systems of performance A/P and C/I. Linearization takes place on the syntactic surface of a sentence. The linearization of linguistic elements is manifest at the derivational point of Spell-out and also on the level of the phonological form (PF). This means that on the one hand, linearization is relevant to the phonetic aspect of linguistic expressions, and on the other hand, the interpretation of linguistic utterances is based on hierarchical structures. On the level of Logical Form (LF) all operations apply which don’t have any influence on the linear order in overt syntax. In addition they affect the generation of hierarchical structures. The structure obtained on LF is the representational format of the semantic form of a sentence.

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Andreas Späth, University of Leipzig.