The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation (Studies in Generative Grammar)

Patrick Georg Grosz; Pritty Patel-Grosz

ISBN 10: 1614517800 / ISBN 13: 9781614517801

Published by De Gruyter Mouton, 2016

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Hardcover, vi + 394 pages, NOT ex-library. Gentle handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The interplay between the interpretation of pronouns (e.g. bound/referential) and their form (e.g. null/overt) is still ill-understood. This volume has a cross-linguistic orientation with in-depth investigations of more than 10 different languages. It unites researchers from the linguistic subfields of syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics, thus furthering dialogue with the goal of shedding new light on the form/interpretation connection. -- Contents: Introduction; Part I: Syntax and Pronominal Form -- Fake Form: and What It Tells Us About the Relation Between Form and Interpretation / Martina Wiltschko; Referential Dependence Across Phase Boundaries in Russian / Inna Livitz; Anaphora vs. Agreement: A New Kind of Anaphor Agreement Effect in Tamil / Sandhya Sundaresan; The Only Real Pro-Nouns: Comparing English 'one' and Italian 'ne' as Noun Phrase Pro-Forms / Michelangelo Falco & Roberto Zamparelli; When Personal Pronouns Compete with Relative Pronouns / Ewa Trutkowski & Helmut Weiß; Part II: Semantics and Pronominal Interpretation -- The Form of Bound Pronouns: Towards a Uniform Account / Uli Sauerland; Demonstrative Pronouns and Perspective / Stefan Hinterwimmer & Peter Bosch; A 'point' of Inquiry: The Case of the (Non-)Pronominal IX in ASL / Elena Koulidobrova & Diane Lillo-Martin; Definite or Still Demonstrative? Some Ideas on the Semantics of the German Distal Demonstrative jen- / Maria Averintseva-Klisch; Deferred Pronouns: A Sketch Based on Relevance Theory and Dynamic Syntax / Thiago N Galery; Part III: Experimental Insights on the Syntax and Semantics of Pronouns -- Restrictions on the Interpretation of Null and Overt Subjects in Italian and Spanish and the Morphological Ambiguity Hypothesis / Francesca Filiaci; Inter-Speaker Variation in Korean Pronouns / Kyeong-min Kim & Chung-hye Han; L2 Speakers' Processing of Reflexives and Personal Pronouns: A Self-Paced Reading Study of German Learners of Dutch / Hendrikje Ziemann & Esther Ruigendijk; Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation (Studies in Generative Grammar)
• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1614517800
• ISBN 13: 9781614517801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The interplay between the interpretation of pronouns (e.g. bound/referential) and their form (e.g. null/overt) is still ill-understood. This volume has a cross-linguistic orientation with in-depth investigations of more than 10 different languages. It unites researchers from the linguistic subfields of syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics, thus furthering dialogue with the goal of shedding new light on the form/interpretation connection.

About the Author

Patrick Georg Grosz, Pritty Patel-Grosz, University of Tübingen, Germany