Binding and Discourse: Where Syntax and Pragmatics Meet

This book provides an analysis of binding phenomena in Bulgarian with a strong emphasis on pragmatic issues. In the 'morphology after syntax' approach it is assumed that the morphosyntactic objects are spelled out in an increasing order of markedness: the most specific structural description is the first to be spelled out and the least specific one is the last. It is further investigated that the use of overlapping forms in the local domain results from discourse factors.

List of contents

Contents: Sentence structure of Bulgarian - Features and binding - Classification of noun phrases - Binding and merge - Spell-out ordering - Overlapping forms - Point of view.

About the author

The Author: Lilia Schürcks, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics at Potsdam University. Her major areas of research are syntax theory, morphology, and information structure.

Product details

• Authors: Lilia Schürcks
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9783631579251
• ISBN: 978-3-631-57925-1
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 8 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 200 g
• Series: Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam; Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistique; Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam; Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistique
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics