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The Construction of Meaning

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This volume collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, including contributions from Eve Clark, Paul Kiparsky, Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl, and Arnold Zwicky. The research covers a number of languages-English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Quechua-and phenomena, including adverbial modification, classifiers, constructional meaning, control phenomena, evidentiality, events semantics, focus, presupposition, and quantification. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the latest developments in the study of meaning.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Country
United States
Date
1 July 2002
Pages
263
ISBN
9781575863757

This volume collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, including contributions from Eve Clark, Paul Kiparsky, Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl, and Arnold Zwicky. The research covers a number of languages-English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Quechua-and phenomena, including adverbial modification, classifiers, constructional meaning, control phenomena, evidentiality, events semantics, focus, presupposition, and quantification. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the latest developments in the study of meaning.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Country
United States
Date
1 July 2002
Pages
263
ISBN
9781575863757