The discourse potential of underspecified structures
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 t...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, New York
Walter de Gruyter
2008
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| Series: | Language, Context and Cognition
8 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110209303 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209303 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/isbn/9783110209303 Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110209303 Cover: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/doc/cover/9783110209303.jpg Verlag, Cover: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110209303/original Verlag, Cover: http://www.degruyterbrill.com/doc/cover/9783110209303.jpg 
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Anita Steube |
| Summary: | 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 word formation of Indo-European, Late Archaic Chinese and modern Khmer; on the word- and sentence levels by the event structures of German; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so-called free word order: German, Slavic languages, Arabic compared with English and the ton |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9783110209303 9783110205732 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110209303 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |