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Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language, Context and Cognition SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (556 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110925449
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Event Structures in Linguistic Form and InterpretationLOC classification:
  • P295 -- .E96 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I Event Structure and Syntactic Construction -- Patients in Igbo and Mandarin -- Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese.
Summary: Human languages are economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of utterances only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Language, Context and Cognition explores conceptual underspecification and context-dependence in grammar and text-production as essential properties of natural languages. This requires close cooperation of linguistics with cognitive science, logic and pragmatics.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I Event Structure and Syntactic Construction -- Patients in Igbo and Mandarin -- Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese.

Human languages are economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of utterances only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Language, Context and Cognition explores conceptual underspecification and context-dependence in grammar and text-production as essential properties of natural languages. This requires close cooperation of linguistics with cognitive science, logic and pragmatics.

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