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Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content by Barbara
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Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content
by Barbara B.H. Partee, P. Sgall, Eva Hajicová
1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova and Sgall (HS in the sequel), topic-focus articulation has long been a central object of study, and it has long been a tenet of Prague school linguistics that topic-focus structure has systematic relevance to meaning. Within the formal semantics tradition represented by Partee (BHP in the sequel), focus has much more recently become an area of concerted investigation, but a number of the semantic phenomena to which focus is relevant have been extensively investi gated and given explicit compositional semantic-analyses. The emergence of 'tripartite structures' (see Chapter 2) in formal semantics and the partial simi larities that can be readily observed between some aspects of tripartite structures and some aspects of Praguian topic-focus articulation have led us to expect that a closer investigation of the similarities and differences in these different theoretical constructs would be a rewarding undertaking with mutual benefits for the further development of our respective theories and potential benefit for the study of semantic effects of focus in other theories as w
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This marks the outcome of an unusual collaborative effort by leading scholars of two distinguished linguistic traditions, combining formal and functional approaches to semantics. Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall are the leaders of the most 'formal' branch of the contemporary functional Prague School tradition, while Barbara H. Partee is one of the founders of formal semantics and one of its leading contributors. In this work 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, and others. The book provides a brief 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 will 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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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.'
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1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con
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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)
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ISBN9048151163Publisher SpringerSeries Studies in Linguistics and PhilosophyYear 2010ISBN-10 9048151163ISBN-13 9789048151165Format PaperbackImprint SpringerPlace of Publication DordrechtCountry of Publication NetherlandsDEWEY 401.43Edition 1stShort Title TOPIC-FOCUS ARTICULATION TRIPALanguage EnglishMedia BookSeries Number 71Author Eva HajicováPages 218Illustrations IX, 218 p.DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-9012-9Publication Date 2010-12-09Alternative 9780792352891Audience Postgraduate, Research & ScholarlyEdition Description 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1998
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