Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-11-058722-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 548 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 811 g

Reihe: Mouton Reader

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.

Zielgruppe

Students, Researchers, Practitioners, General Readers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Portner, Paul

Heusinger, Klaus Von

Maienborn, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Über Autor(innen)

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