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1 Meaning in linguistics
No full textReprint from: Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger & Paul Portner (eds.). 2011. Semantics, vol. 1, 1-10. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Semantics: foundations, history and methods Mouton reader./ edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, Paul Portner.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Meaning in linguistics / Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger and Paul Portner -- Meaning, intentionality and communication / Pierre Jacob -- (Frege on) sense and reference / Mark Textor -- Reference: Foundational issues / Barbara Abbott -- Meaning in language use / Georgia M. Green -- Compositionality / Peter Pagin and Dag Westersã̃hl -- Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues / Stefan Engelberg -- Meaning in pre-19th century thought / Stephan Meier-Oeser -- The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century / Brigitte Nerlich -- The influence of logic on semantics / Albert Newen and Bernhard Schärder -- Formal semantics and representationalism / Ruth Kempson -- Varieties of semantic evidence / Manfred Krifka -- Methods in cross-linguistic semantics / Lisa Matthewson -- Formal methods in semantics / Alice G.B. ter Meulen -- The application of experimental methods in semantics / Oliver Bott, Sam Featherston, Janina Radã, and Britta Stolterfoht.1 online resource (vi, 412 pages)
Specificity
No full textReprint from: Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn &\ Paul Portner (eds.). 2011. Semantics, vol. 2, 1025-1058. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Topicality and (Non-)Specificity in Mandarin
No full textCurrent analyses of specificity are unable to provide an explanatory account for why specific and nonspecific uses of indefinites are available. While Abusch (1994), Reinhart (1997), and Kratzer (1998) provide successful mechanisms for deriving specific readings, they do not provide a fundamental explanation for the availability of this mechanism. This is due to the fact that specific indefinites are treated as involving an interpretive component or procedure unique to themselves: storage (Abusch) or choice function (Reinhart and Kratzer), for example. It would be preferable if specific indefinites could be understood as deriving from the use of independently motivated meaning components and interpretive mechanisms.
Here I will pursue the idea, building on Portner & Yabushita (1998), that specificity has to do with the indefinite's interaction with a topical domain (note similarities with the proposals of Enç 1991, Cresti 1995, and Schwarzschild 2000). In this conception, specificity is a matter of degree: the narrower the topical domain, the more specific the indefinite. More precisely, sentences containing specific indefinites will be understood as involving ordinary existential quantification in combination with a topical domain function
Semantics: interfaces Mouton reader./ edited by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner.
No full textIn English.Includes bibliographical references and index."Explore the exciting research where semantics meets morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In this book, leading researchers use in-depth articles to explain a wide range of topics at these interfaces, including the semantics of intonation, inflection, compounding, argument structure, type shifting, compositionality, implicature, context dependence, deixis and presupposition. Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the highly cited material in this book is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in semantics where it crosses over with other dimensions of grammar"--Truckenbrodt, Hubert -- Kiparsky, Paul / Tonhauser, Judith -- Lieber, Rochelle -- Olsen, Susan -- Harley, Heidi -- von Stechow, Arnim -- Wunderlich, Dieter -- de Hoop, Helen -- Kay, Paul / Michaelis, Laura A. -- Chierchia, Gennaro / Fox, Danny / Spector, Benjamin -- Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. -- Zimmermann, Thomas Ede -- Diessel, Holger -- Beaver, David / Geurts, Bart -- Simons, Mandy -- Jäger, Gerhard -- Potts, Christopher -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Semantics of intonation / 2. Semantics of inflection / 3. Semantics of derivational morphology / 4. Semantics of compounds / 5. Semantics in Distributed Morphology / 6. Syntax and semantics: An overview / 7. Operations on argument structure / 8. Type shifting / 9. Constructional meaning and compositionality / 10. Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon / 11. Semantics/pragmatics boundary disputes / 12. Context dependence / 13. Deixis and demonstratives / 14. Presupposition / 15. Implicature / 16. Game theory in semantics and pragmatics / 17. Conventional implicature and expressive content / Index1 online resource (vi, 626 pages)
Semantics
No full textRe-edition of Maienborn, von Heusinger, Portner (eds.). 2011-2012. Handbook of Semantics. 3 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Semantics: typology, diachrony and processing Mouton reader./ edited by Klausn von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, Paul Portner.
No full text"This volume is part of a larger set of handbooks to Semantics"Includes bibliographical references and index."Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of authors, the book also deals with the concept of meaning in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and the understanding of semantics in computer science. It is packed with highly cited, expert guidance on the key topics in the field, making it a bookshelf essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language"--1 online resource
Conversations with Paul Auster
No full textInterviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies.Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Translation -- Interview with Paul Auster -- An Interview with Paul Auster -- Memory's Escape-Inventing the Music of Chance: A Conversation with Paul Auster -- The Making of Smoke -- The Manuscript in the Book: A Conversation -- An Interview with Paul Auster -- The Futurist Radio Hour: An Interview with Paul Auster -- Paul Auster: Writer and Director -- Off the Page: Paul Auster -- Paul Auster: The Art of Fiction -- Jonathan Lethem Talks with Paul Auster -- A Conversation with Paul Auster -- The Making of The Inner Life of Martin Frost -- Interview: Paul Auster -- A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster -- Interview: Paul Auster on His New Novel, Invisible -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZInterviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Portrait of Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011 /
No full textTitle from nformation supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Podcast photograph of author Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Semantics: sentence and information structure Mouton reader./ edited by Paul Portner, Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger.
No full textIn English.Includes bibliographical references and index.Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.Scope and binding / Anna Szabolcsi -- Negation / Elena Herburger -- Negative and positive polarity items / Anastasia Giannakidou -- Coordination / Roberto Zamparelli -- Questions / Manfred Krifka -- Imperatives / Chung-hye Han -- Copular clauses / Line Mikkelsen -- Existential sentences / Louise McNally -- Ellipsis / Ingo Reich -- Information structure and truth-conditional semantics / Stefan Hinterwimmer -- Topics / Craige Roberts -- Discourse effects of word order variation / Gregory Ward and Betty J. Birner -- Cohesion and coherence / Andrew Kehler -- Accessibility and anaphora / Bart Geurts -- Discourse particles / Malte Zimmermann.1 online resource (vi, 548 pages)
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