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This marks the outcome of a collaborative effort by leading scholars of two linguistic traditions, combining formal and functional approaches to semantics. 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, andothers. The text provides an 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 should be of interest to researchers and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, comparative English-Slavic structure, semantic typology, computational linguistics, and general linguistics theory.

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Author:   Eva Hajicová ,  Barbara B.H. Partee ,  P. Sgall
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   71
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.110kg
ISBN:  

9780792352891

ISBN 10:   0792352890
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   31 October 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. 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.

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'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)

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