Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives Volume 123 (Csli Lecture Notes, Band 11) - Softcover

Ginzburg, Jonathan; Sag, Ivan A.

 
9781575862781: Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives Volume 123 (Csli Lecture Notes, Band 11)
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ISBN 10: 1575862786 ISBN 13: 9781575862781
Verlag: CTR FOR STUDY OF LANG & INFO, 2001

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Interrogative constructions are the linguistic forms by which questions are expressed. Their analysis is of great interest to linguists, as well as to computer scientists, human-computer interface designers, and philosophers. Interrogative constructions have played a central role in the development of modern syntactic theory. Nonetheless, to date most syntactic work has taken place quite separately from formal semantic and pragmatic work on interrogatives. Although there has by now been a significant amount of work on interrogatives across a variety of languages, there exist few syntactic and semantic treatments that provide a comprehensive account of a wide range of interrogative constructions and uses in a single language.

This book closes the gap in research on this subject. By developing the frameworks of Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Situation Semantics, the authors provide an account that rigorously integrates syntactic, semantic, and contextual dimensions of interrogatives. The challenge of providing exhaustive coverage of the interrogative constructions of English, including various constructions that occur solely in dialogue interaction, leads to new insights about a variety of contentious theoretical issues. These include matters of semantic ontology, the quantificational status of wh-phrases, the semantic effect of wh-fronting, the status of constructions in grammatical theory, the integration of illocutionary information in the grammar, and the nature of ellipsis resolution in dialogue. The account is stated with sufficient rigor to enable fairly direct computational implementation.

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Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013) was professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He was the author of Syntactic Theory, 2nd Edition, German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Interrogative Investigations, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

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CTR FOR STUDY OF LANG & INFO
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1575862786
ISBN 13 
9781575862781
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250
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