Discomposition Redressed: Hidden Change, Modality, and Comparison in German (Studien zur deutschen Sprache: Forschungen des Instituts für deutsche Sprache)

Brandt, Patrick

ISBN 10: 3823382438 ISBN 13: 9783823382430

Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Modern theoretical linguistics lives by the insight that the meanings of complex expressions derive from the meanings of their parts and the way these are composed. However, the currently dominating theories of the syntax-semantics interface hastily relegate important aspects of meaning which cannot readily be aligned with visible structure to empty projecting heads non-reductively (mainstream Generative Grammar) or to the syntactic construction holistically (Construction Grammar). This book develops an alternative, compositional analysis of the hidden aspectual-temporal, modal and comparative meanings of a range of productive constructions of which pseudorefl exive, excessive and directional complement constructions take center stage. Accordingly, a contradiction-inducing hence semantically problematic part of literally coded meaning is locally ignored and systematically realized "expatriately" with respect to parts of structure that achieve the indexical anchoring of propositional contents in terms of times, worlds and standards of comparison, thus yielding the observed hidden meanings.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Patrick Brandt arbeitet am Insititut für Deutsche Sprache in der Abteilung Grammatik und lehrt als Privatdozent im Bereich Germanistische Linguistik an der Universität Mannheim.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3823382438
• ISBN 13: 9783823382430
• Einband: Broschiert
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: UVK Verlag - Ein Unternehmen der Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG; info@narr.de; ; Dischingerweg 5; Tübingen; 72070; Deutschland