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OverviewThis marks the outcome of an unusual collaborative effort by leading scholars of two distinguished linguistic traditions, combining formal and functional approaches to semantics. Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall are the leaders of the most 'formal' branch of the contemporary functional Prague School tradition, while Barbara H. Partee is one of the founders of formal semantics and one of its leading contributors. In this work the authors jointly explore the relationship between theories of topic-focus structure, principally as developed in the Prague School, and the tripartite structure approach to quantification and other focus-sensitive constructions which has emerged from work in formal semantics by Heim, Kamp, Rooth, Partee, Von Finkel, Krifka, and others. The book provides a brief introduction to the most relevant aspects of both traditions, then proceeds through a dialogue between the two approaches, culminating in a synthesis in which a set of jointly developed hypotheses are examined and applied to a broad range of examples. The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, comparative English-Slavic structure, semantic typology, computational linguistics, and general linguistics theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eva Hajicová , Barbara B.H. Partee , P. SgallPublisher: Springer Imprint: Springer Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998 Volume: 71 Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9789048151165ISBN 10: 9048151163 Pages: 218 Publication Date: 09 December 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Towards an investigation of the relation between topic-focus articulation and tripartite structures.- 3. Remarks on common background and shared assumptions.- 4. Obstacles to joint work.- 5. Dialogue, progressing towards a common basis for discussion.- 6. Some hypotheses proposed and examined.- 7. Future directions.- References.- List of abbreviations.- Name index.Reviews'The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, comparative English-Slavic structure, semantic typology, computational linguistics, and general linguistics theory.' Folia Linguistica, XXXVI (2002) 'The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, comparative English-Slavic structure, semantic typology, computational linguistics, and general linguistics theory.' Folia Linguistica, XXXVI (2002) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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