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020			_a9780080457314 _q(electronic book)
020			_a9780080445779 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9780080457314 _2DOI
035			_a(OCoLC)74282013
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050		4	_aP299.F63
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100	1		_aWedgwood, Daniel, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aShifting the Focus / _cDaniel Wedgwood.
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2005.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCurrent Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; _v14
490	1		_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aLanguage and Meaning -- Relevance Theory and Implications for Linguistic Structure -- The Hungarian Data -- Focus and Grammar -- Focus and Quantifier Distribution -- Dynamic Structured Meanings: Predication and Information Structure -- Verbal Modifiers and Main Predication -- 'Aspectual Constructions' and Negation -- Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aHow direct is the mapping between linguistic constructions and their interpretations? Much less direct than we commonly assume, according to Daniel Wedgwood. Extending current ideas from frameworks like Relevance Theory and Dynamic Syntax, Wedgwood upholds a radical position on modelling linguistic competence: the idea of interfacing static syntactic and semantic representations must be abandoned in favour of models of the incremental construction of meaning during parsing - which may involve significant pragmatic enrichment. In illustration, Wedgwood presents a detailed study of a key meeting point of grammar and pragmatics: focus, in particular its syntactic expression in Hungarian. The result is a strikingly simple explanation of a complex set of syntactico-semantic phenomena, touching on information structure, negation, quantification and complex predication. For its clear and bold theoretical argumentation and its novel analysis of some notorious data, this book will be of interest to all linguists, philosophers and computational linguists concerned with the relationships between syntax, semantics, pragmatics and information structure. This book features a broad theoretical perspective. It offers a coherent overall picture of syntax, semantics and pragmatics - and how they inter-relate. It combines a bold new approach with the insights of existing theory - thorough, novel analysis of linguistic phenomena that historically occupy an important place in the literature, as illustration of a carefully laid out theoretical position. It extends and integrates research from a variety of linguistic domains and frameworks. It also includes a comprehensive informal discussion as well as a formalised analysis.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aFocus (Linguistics)
650		0	_aPragmatics.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tShifting the Focus. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005 _z9780080445779 _w(OCoLC)60370946
830		0	_aCurrent Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; _v14.
830		0	_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9780080457314
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