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Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content
Hajicova, Eva; Partee, Barbara B. H.; Sgall, Petr
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Description for Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content
Paperback. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 361.
1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova and Sgall (HS in the sequel), topic-focus articulation has long been a central object of study, and it has long been a tenet of Prague school linguistics that topic-focus structure has systematic relevance to meaning. Within ... Read more
1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova and Sgall (HS in the sequel), topic-focus articulation has long been a central object of study, and it has long been a tenet of Prague school linguistics that topic-focus structure has systematic relevance to meaning. Within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048151165
SKU
V9789048151165
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Reviews for Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content
'The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, comparative English-Slavic structure, semantic typology, computational linguistics, and general linguistics theory.' Folia Linguistica, XXXVI (2002)