The Composition of Meaning: From Lexeme to Discourse
Alice G. B. ter Meulen, Werner Abraham (Eds.)
In the modular design of generative theory the syntax–semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax–pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the ‘pragmatic turn’ in the linguistic theory, where content is partitioned into given and new information. In other words, the structural division of the clause has been subjected to criteria of information, or discourse structure. Both interfaces require a structurally descriptive inventory whose specific shapes can be motivated on theory-internal grounds only. The present collection of original articles develops the concept of these interfaces further. The papers in the first section focus on the syntax–semantics interface, those in the second section on the syntax–pragmatics interface.
年:
2004
出版:
1st
出版社:
John Benjamins
语言:
english
页:
230
ISBN 10:
9027295107
ISBN 13:
9789027295101
系列:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 255
文件:
PDF, 1.43 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2004