Topic Focus Articulation Tripartite Structures And Semantic Content

Author : Eva Hajicová,Barbara B.H. Partee,P. Sgall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 146 pages
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Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401590129

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Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content by Eva Hajicová,Barbara B.H. Partee,P. Sgall Pdf

1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova and Sgall (HS in the sequel), topic-focus articulation has long been a central object of study, and it has long been a tenet of Prague school linguistics that topic-focus structure has systematic relevance to meaning. Within the formal semantics tradition represented by Partee (BHP in the sequel), focus has much more recently become an area of concerted investigation, but a number of the semantic phenomena to which focus is relevant have been extensively investi gated and given explicit compositional semantic-analyses. The emergence of 'tripartite structures' (see Chapter 2) in formal semantics and the partial simi larities that can be readily observed between some aspects of tripartite structures and some aspects of Praguian topic-focus articulation have led us to expect that a closer investigation of the similarities and differences in these different theoretical constructs would be a rewarding undertaking with mutual benefits for the further development of our respective theories and potential benefit for the study of semantic effects of focus in other theories as well.

Author : Eva Hajicova,Barbara Partee,P. Sgall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
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Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401590133

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Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content by Eva Hajicova,Barbara Partee,P. Sgall Pdf

Author : Carsten Breul
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227926

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Focus Structure in Generative Grammar by Carsten Breul Pdf

The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in great detail with respect to syntax, intonation and semantics within the framework of the Minimalist Program. It is shown that the incorporation of focus structure into syntax offers new perspectives for a solution of vexing problems in syntax and semantics. For example, fronting (preposing, 'topicalisation') is treated as a syntactic operation which clearly belongs to core grammar, i.e. is not optional or 'stylistic'; the semantic notion of quantifier raising is dispensed with in favour of a focus structural treatment of phenomena which gave rise to it. The book appeals to generative linguists and to functional linguists who do not believe in an unbridgeable gap between the formal and functional analysis of language.

Author : Zoltan Gendler Szabo
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191514395

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Semantics versus Pragmatics by Zoltan Gendler Szabo Pdf

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Author : Anita Steube
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110905892

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Information Structure by Anita Steube Pdf

Der Band behandelt die Schnittstelle zwischen Pragmatik, Grammatik und Psycholinguistik bzw. Neurolinguistik. Pragmatisch bedingt sind die Zurechnungen von Satzteilen zur bekannten oder zur Neuinformation im Text. Realisiert werden die pragmatischen Gliederungen aber in der Grammatik. Die theoretische Modellierung erfolgte in generativen Grammatiken, in optimalitätstheoretischen Modellen oder anhand der Alternativsemantik. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt auf Korrekturkonstruktionen und auf Hutkonturen. Erstere zeichnen sich durch Kontrastakzente aus und Letztere sind zweigipflig akzentuiert. Um die Prosodie weiterzuentwickeln, beschäftigt sich die Hälfte der Beiträge mit dem psycholinguistischen und neurophysiologischen Nachweis der Intonationsparameter und mit ihrer Auswertung im Kontext. Von der Kontrastintonation geht der Band dann über zur Typologie von Kontrastkonstruktionen, zu ihrem grammatischen Vergleich und ihrer textuellen Verwendung.

Author : Eva Haji?ová,Miroslav Cervenka,Oldrich Leska,Petr Sgall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1556196741

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Prague Linguistic Circle Papers by Eva Haji?ová,Miroslav Cervenka,Oldrich Leska,Petr Sgall Pdf

This volume is the first one of the revived series of "Travaux," which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. The first volume of the new series is divided into five sections: 1. Introductory papers characterizing the development of the Prague School in the recent decades; 2. Methodological issues of structural and functional linguistics; 3. Sentence structure; 4. Discourse patterns; 5. Theory of literature. In accordance with the tradition, the volume contains contributions concerning issues of principle, empirical linguistic studies, and also papers from the theory of literature.

Author : Vaclav Matousek,Pavel Mautner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783642042089

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Text, Speech and Dialogue by Vaclav Matousek,Pavel Mautner Pdf

Annotation This volume constitutes seleted papers from the 12th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2009, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2009. This volume contains a collection of submitted papers presented at the conference which were thoroughly reviewed by three members of the conference reviewing team consisting of more than 40 top specialists in the conference topic areas. A total of 53 accepted papers out of 112 submitted, altogether contributed 127 authors and co-authors, were selected for presentation at the conference by the program committee and then included in this book. Theoretical and more general contributions were presented in common (plenary) sessions. Problem oriented sessions as well as panel discussions then brought together the specialists in limited problem areas with the aim of exchanging knowledge and skills resulting from research projects of all kinds.

Author : Stefan Sudhoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288561

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Focus Particles in German by Stefan Sudhoff Pdf

This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present a particularly well-suited subject for the investigation of the modularity of grammar in general. The first part of the book deals with the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of focus particle constructions and results in a modular account of the relation between their word order, information structure, and meaning. The second part presents a corpus study and several speech production and perception experiments investigating the prosodic realization of the constructions. The integration of these two lines of research results in a comprehensive theory of focus particles and of the interaction of grammar and information structure in German.

Author : Peter Bosch,Rob van der Sandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521583055

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Focus by Peter Bosch,Rob van der Sandt Pdf

This collection of papers examines the theoretical, psychological and descriptive approaches to focus.

Author : Elin McCready,Katsuhiko Yabushita,Kei Yoshimoto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401788137

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Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics by Elin McCready,Katsuhiko Yabushita,Kei Yoshimoto Pdf

This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.

Author : Martin Everaert,Henk C. Van Riemsdijk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 3285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405178419

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The Blackwell Companion to Syntax by Martin Everaert,Henk C. Van Riemsdijk Pdf

*** Pre-Order The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, second edition, publishing December 2017. Find out more at www.companiontosyntax.com *** This long-awaited reference work marks the culmination of numerous years of research and international collaboration by the world’s leading syntacticians. There exists no other comparable collection of research that documents the development of syntax in this way. Under the editorial direction of Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, this 5 volume set comprises 70 case studies commissioned specifically for this volume. The 80 contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joe Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, Jim Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others. A unique collection of 70 newly-commissioned case studies, offering access to research completed over the last 40 years. Brings together the world’s leading syntacticians to provide a large and diverse number of case studies in the field. Explores a comprehensive range of syntax topics from an historical perspective. Investigates empirical domains which have been well-documented and which have played a prominent role in theoretical syntax at some stage in the development of generative grammar. Serves as a research tool for not only theoretical linguistics but also the various forms of applied linguistics. Contains an accessible alphabetical structure, with an index integral to each volume featuring keywords and key figures. Each multi-volume set is also accompanied by a CD Rom of the entire Companion. Like the prestigious Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, this multi-volume work, in the new The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Linguistics series, can be relied upon to deliver the quality and expertise with which Blackwell Publishing’s linguistics list is associated.

Author : Eugenia Casielles-Suárez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135876708

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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface by Eugenia Casielles-Suárez Pdf

Central questions addressed are the analysis of subjects in Spanish and English (DP vs. NP and null vs. preverbal vs. postverbal) and the nature of constructions such as topicalization, left-dislocation, and focus preposing.

Author : Hajičová, Eva
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788024637143

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Syntax–Semantics Interface by Hajičová, Eva Pdf

The volume SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE is a collection of selected studies written by Eva Hajičová and published between the years 1973 and 2014. The contributions are based on the theoretical framework of the Functional Generative Description as proposed by Petr Sgall in early sixties and developed further by him and his followers since then. Thematically, the volume reflects the author’s research contributions to four main domains: (i) the specification of the underlying (deep) sentence structure (analyzed in terms of dependency relations), (ii) the information structure of the sentence (topic-focus articulation) and its relation to the specification of presupposition and negation and to other related phenomena, (iii) building of a scheme of annotated corpus of Czech to serve among other things for verification of linguistic theoretical claims, and (iv) some fundamental aspects of discourse structure, namely the notion of the hiearachy of elements in the stock of knowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer. All the papers except for one have been originally published in English and in they pay due respect to a comparison of the author’s original findings with the currrent state-of-the-art of linguistic theory at home and abroad.

Author : Evangelia Adamou,Katharina Haude,Martine Vanhove
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263810

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Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages by Evangelia Adamou,Katharina Haude,Martine Vanhove Pdf

The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory, and which belong to the Afroasiatic, Amerindian, Australian, Caucasian, and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions, several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages, ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies, this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.

Author : Darja Fišer,Andreas Witt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110767407

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CLARIN by Darja Fišer,Andreas Witt Pdf

CLARIN, the "Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure", has established itself as a major player in the field of research infrastructures for the humanities. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the organization, its members, its goals and its functioning, as well as of the tools and resources hosted by the infrastructure. The many contributors representing various fields, from computer science to law to psychology, analyse a wide range of topics, such as the technology behind the CLARIN infrastructure, the use of CLARIN resources in diverse research projects, the achievements of selected national CLARIN consortia, and the challenges that CLARIN has faced and will face in the future. The book will be published in 2022, 10 years after the establishment of CLARIN as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium by the European Commission (Decision 2012/136/EU). Watch our talk with the editors Darja Fišer and Andreas Witt here: https://youtu.be/ZOoiGbmMbxI