Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure

by Paul Portner (Editor), Claudia Maienborn (Editor), Klaus von Heusinger (Editor)

Overview

Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110587227
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	02/19/2019
Series:	Mouton Reader
Pages:	554
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Claudia Maienborn, Tübingen, Germany; Klaus von Heusinger, Köln, Germany; Paul Portner, Washington D.C., USA.

Table of Contents

1 Scope and binding Anna Szabolcsi 1

2 Negation Elena Herburger 46

3 Negative and positive polarity items Anastasia Giannakidou 69

4 Coordination Roberto Zamparelli 135

5 Questions Manfred Krifka 171

6 Imperatives Chung-hye Han 225

7 Copular clauses Line Mikkelsen 250

8 Existential sentences Louise McNally 281

9 Ellipsis Ingo Reich 306

10 Information structure and truth conditional semantics Stefan Hinterwimmer 339

11 Topics Craige Roberts 381

12 Discourse effects of word order variation Gregory Ward Betty J. Birner 413

13 Cohesion and coherence Andrew Kehler 450

14 Accessibility and anaphora Bart Geurts 481

15 Discourse particles Malte Zimmermann 511

Index 545

Editorial Reviews

"It’s great news that this outstanding Handbook of Semantics is appearing in paperback, now accessible to individuals as well as to libraries. The Handbook is a masterful achievement, both broad and deep — it has almost every topic you might want to learn about, in articles generally written by the people you would most want to learn from. A lasting reference work of the highest quality."

(Barbara H Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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