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Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical investigation of ellipsis in generative grammar. The phenomenon of ellipsis most generally refers to the omission of linguistic material, structure and sound. The central aim of this book is to explain on the basis of linguistic theorizing of how it is possible that we understand more than we actually hear. The answer developed throughout this book is that ellipsis is an interface phenomenon which can only be explained on the basis of the complex interaction between syntax, semantics and information structure. Scholars of grammar and cognitive scientists will profit from reading this book.

Grammar --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Ellipsis --- Generative grammar. --- Ellipsis. --- Ellipsis (Language). --- Generative Linguistics.

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How direct is the mapping between linguistic constructions and their interpretations? Much less direct than we commonly assume, according to Daniel Wedgwood. Extending current ideas from frameworks like Relevance Theory and Dynamic Syntax, Wedgwood upholds a radical position on modelling linguistic competence: the idea of interfacing static syntactic and semantic representations must be abandoned in favour of models of the incremental construction of meaning during parsing - which may involve significant pragmatic enrichment. In illustration, Wedgwood presents a detailed study of a key meeting point of grammar and pragmatics: focus, in particular its syntactic expression in Hungarian. The result is a strikingly simple explanation of a complex set of syntactico-semantic phenomena, touching on information structure, negation, quantification and complex predication. For its clear and bold theoretical argumentation and its novel analysis of some notorious data, this book will be of interest to all linguists, philosophers and computational linguists concerned with the relationships between syntax, semantics, pragmatics and information structure. This book features a broad theoretical perspective. It offers a coherent overall picture of syntax, semantics and pragmatics - and how they inter-relate. It combines a bold new approach with the insights of existing theory - thorough, novel analysis of linguistic phenomena that historically occupy an important place in the literature, as illustration of a carefully laid out theoretical position. It extends and integrates research from a variety of linguistic domains and frameworks. It also includes a comprehensive informal discussion as well as a formalised analysis.

Focus (Linguistics) --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Philosophy --- Topic and comment --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Bulgarian language --- Grammar --- -Bulgarian language --- -Focus (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Slavic languages, Southern --- Syntax --- Topic and comment --- Semantics --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics / Semantics --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Syntax. --- Topic and comment. --- Semantics.

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This is an introduction to information structure, discussing a range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. The book examines whether information structure maps onto syntax, and if so how.

801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Discourse analysis. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Topic and comment. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Discourse analysis --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Topic and comment --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology

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"In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information structure, the structuring of the utterance in accordance with the informational value of its elements and contextual factors. Marked objects tend to be associated with old information or information that the sentence is about, while unmarked objects tend to express new information. The book also sheds light on grammatical patterning in languages with differential object marking: in some languages marked and unmarked objects have identical grammatical properties, whereas in other languages marked objects are more active in syntax. Finally, it provides a theory of the historical changes that lead to the emergence of various patterns of differential object marking"

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Syntax. --- Topic and comment. --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- General --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Focus (Linguistics). --- General. --- Focus (linguistics). --- Grammar, comparative and general --- Language arts & disciplines --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Syntax --- Discourse analysis --- Topic and comment --- Subject and predicate --- Sémantique --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Focus (linguistique) --- Sujet et prédicat --- Syntaxe