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The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
List of contents
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY -- Linguistic Categories and the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Evaluating Competing Approaches -- Why Verb Meaning Matters to Syntax -- Representing Constructional Schemata in the FunGramKB Grammaticon -- Multilingualism, Multilectalism and Register Variation in Linguistic Theory - Extending the Diasystematic Approach -- RRG and the Exploration of Syntactically Based Relativistic Effects -- CASE STUDIES THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE -- Head-Marking and Agreement: Evidence from Yucatec Maya -- Degree Expressions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface -- Volition in Grammar and Lexical Representation of Verbs: The Case of Kabardian Involuntative -- Direct versus Inverse in Murik-Kopar -- Shifting Perspectives: Case Marking Restrictions and the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface -- Notes on "Noun Phrase Structure" in Tagalog -- Integrated and Non-Integrated Left Dislocation: A Comparative Study of LD in Avatime, Tundra Yukaghir & Whitesands
About the author
Jens Fleischhauer,
Anja Latrouite, und
Rainer Osswald, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
