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Conflicts in Interpretation (Advances in Optimality Theory)
De Hoop, Helen, De Swart, Henriette, Hendriks, Petra, Kraemer, Irene
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Description for Conflicts in Interpretation (Advances in Optimality Theory)
Paperback. Intends to applly novel methods of constraint interaction, derived from connectionist theories and implemented in linguistics within the framework of Optimality Theory, to core semantic and pragmatic issues such as polysemy, negation, (in)definiteness, focus, anaphora, and rhetorical structure. Series: Advances in Optimality Theory. Num Pages: 192 pages, 21 figures. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
"Conflicts in Interpretation" applies novel methods of constraint interaction, derived from connectionist theories and implemented in linguistics within the framework of Optimality Theory, to core semantic and pragmatic issues such as polysemy, negation, (in)definiteness, focus, anaphora, and rhetorical structure. It explores the hypothesis that a natural language grammar is a set of potentially conflicting constraints on forms and meanings. Moreover, it hypothesizes that competent language users not only optimize from an input form to the optimal output meaning for this form, or vice versa, but also consider the opposite direction of optimization, thus taking into account the speaker as a ... Read more
"Conflicts in Interpretation" applies novel methods of constraint interaction, derived from connectionist theories and implemented in linguistics within the framework of Optimality Theory, to core semantic and pragmatic issues such as polysemy, negation, (in)definiteness, focus, anaphora, and rhetorical structure. It explores the hypothesis that a natural language grammar is a set of potentially conflicting constraints on forms and meanings. Moreover, it hypothesizes that competent language users not only optimize from an input form to the optimal output meaning for this form, or vice versa, but also consider the opposite direction of optimization, thus taking into account the speaker as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Optimality Theory
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845534387
SKU
V9781845534387
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Ref
99-37
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