The volume contains articles that focus on the interface between linguistic and conceptual knowledge. The issues addressed in the volume include the preconditions of every level of the language system that are required for the transformation of linguistic information into conceptual representations. In accordance with Chomsky's Minimalist language model, the language system is embedded into the performative systems where language is a part of the cognitive competence of human beings, i.e. system of articulation and perception (A/P) and the conceptual-intentional system (C/I). During the...
The volume contains articles that focus on the interface between linguistic and conceptual knowledge. The issues addressed in the volume include th...
Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. Taking as a starting point the notorious difficulty of differentiating so-called literal from non-literal (or figurative) meaning, it covers a wide range of the key current topics in semantics and pragmatics, e.g., the saying/meaning distinction, minimalism vs. contextualism, unarticulated constituents, indexicalism, (generalised) conversational implicatures, speech...
Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a com...
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...
The volume demonstrates the interdependence of man's language capacity and his other conceptual capacities. This enables linguistic structures to be m...
Die Studie untersucht erstmals die prosodische Struktur alltaglicher gesungener Sprache und ihre Relevanz fur den Spracherwerb. Anhand umfangreicher Feldaufnahmen in deutscher, russischer und franzosischer Sprache zeigt die Autorin, wie Sprache und Musik miteinander interagieren und wie das Singen Kleinkinder beim Spracherwerb unterstutzt. Das Buch ermoglicht weitreichende Einblicke in die Schnittstellen von Sprache und Musik und ist daher interdisziplinar von Interesse. Zudem bietet es Ansatzpunkte fur die Spracherwerbsforschung, -therapie und Sprachtypologie.
Die Studie untersucht erstmals die prosodische Struktur alltaglicher gesungener Sprache und ihre Relevanz fur den Spracherwerb. Anhand umfangreiche...
This book presents work on bridging inferences in discourse interpretation. It develops a formalization that permits integrating indirect anaphora in the construction of a structured discourse representation. From a broader perspective, it provides a suitable dynamic-logic framework which can account for underspecifications in cohesion and coherence of discourses by either inferentially resolving or contextually constraining them. Special attention is given to the resolution of bridging anaphora by means of integrating encyclopedic knowledge encoded in FrameNet into a formal theory of...
This book presents work on bridging inferences in discourse interpretation. It develops a formalization that permits integrating indirect anaphora ...
Die Sprachkenntnis ist ein uberaus okonomisches Wissenssystem, das zur Interpretation der Auerungen in der Regel nur beizusteuern braucht, was nicht durch die ubrigen konzeptuellen Systeme geliefert wird. Daher sind grammatische Unterspezifikation und Kontextabhangigkeit nach Sprachtyp und Einzelsprache verschieden ausgepragt, substantielle sprachliche Eigenschaften. Die Reihe Language, Context and Cognition untersucht diese Eigenschaften naturlicher Sprachen in deren Lexikon, in der Interaktion ihrer grammatischen Subsysteme und in den Textbildungsverfahren in der Gegenwart...
Die Sprachkenntnis ist ein uberaus okonomisches Wissenssystem, das zur Interpretation der Auerungen in der Regel nur beizusteuern braucht, was nich...
Human languages are very economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of an utterance only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Thus, conceptual underspecification and context-dependence are essential properties, which vary from one particular language to the next in dependence on the structural make-up a given language belongs to.
The book series "Language, Context and Cognition" explores the essential properties of natural languages in focusing on their lexical entries, on the interaction of their grammatical...
Human languages are very economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of an utterance only what ca...
