The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse: 255 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027247692 ISBN 13: 9789027247698

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027247692
• ISBN 13: 9789027247698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Meulen Alice G.B. Ter, Abraham Werner