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the discourse potential of underspecified structures
the volume demonstrates the interdependence of man s language capacity and his other conceptual capacities . this enables linguistic structures to be minimalised and for extra linguistic domains to provide much of the interpretations of sound and meaning . underspecification is demonstrated in the word formation of indo european late archaic chinese and modern khmer ; on the word and sentence levels by the event structures of german ; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so called free word order german slavic languages arabic compared with english and the tone language hausa . the volume is noteworthy due to the close cooperation between theoretical and experimental research . within grammar it has especially strengthened prosodic research and the syntax phonology interrelations and their interpretations and it has helped to create data bases for the relations within texts and to evaluate the findings .
hardcover walter de gruyter inc 2008 isbn13 9783110205732 isbn10 3110205734
book type nf isbn 13 9783110205732 number of pages 611 publisher walter de gruyter release date 62135769600000