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  • av Adrian Czardybon
    593,-

    The aim of this book is to investigate how definiteness is expressed in Polish, a language which is claimed to have no definite and in-definite articles. The central question is how the difference in definiteness is indicated between ¿a woman¿ and ¿the woman¿ in Polish. In English, the definite article ¿the¿ and the indefinite article ¿ä express the category of definiteness explicitly. Since definiteness is also relevant in articleless languages, there are other means to indicate that a nominal phrase is definite or indefinite. This study is delimited to four means for expressing definiteness in Polish, which are demonstratives, aspect, case alternation, and information structure. Each strategy is investigated independently from the others, although they interact in a complex way, which is shown at the end of this book resulting in a decision tree. Polish is not investigated in isolation, however, the study is complemented by comparisons with other Slavic languages and also with a Polish dialect called ¿Upper Silesian¿, which differs from Polish. The analysis in this book is based on Löbner¿s theory of ¿Concept Types and Determination¿ (CTD). Löbner¿s distinction of the four concept types (sortal, relational, functional, individual) is crucial since definiteness phenomena under discussion can be explained. Therefore, the interaction of the four concept types with the four definiteness strategies plays a central role in this book.

  • av Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer
    593,-

    Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like "The boy loves his mother very much" and "The boy has grown a lot" reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable too. Verb gradation has received considerably less attention in the literature than gradation of adjectives. The aim of the current volume is to explore the notion of verb gradation in more detail. The book presents a semantic as well as a syntactic analysis of verb gradation and combines three case studies with a general perspective on the phenomenon. Issues addressed in the volume cover, among others, the notion of scalarity in the verbal domain, the interaction of verb gradation with grammatical as well as lexical aspect and verb gradation as a subcompositional phenomenon. These topics are investigated from a cross-linguistic perspective. The languages of investigation include, among others, German, Russian and French.

  • - An Action-Based Approach to Grounded Cognition
    av Tim Seuchter
    801,-

    Theories of grounded cognition state that there is a meaningful connection between action and cognition. Although these claims are widely accepted, the nature and structure of this connection is far from clear and is still a matter of controversy. This book argues for a type of cognitive representation that essentially combines cognition and action, and which is foundational for higher-order cognitive capacities.

  • - Information Structure and Morphosyntax of an Austronesian Language
    av Patrick Nuhn
    801,-

  • av Syuzan Sachliyan
    801,-

    Bulgarisch und Mazedonisch sind die einzigen slawischen Sprachen mit definiten und indefiniten Artikeln. Dabei ist Mazedonisch unter den wenigen Sprachen, die den definiten Artikel deiktisch differenzieren. In einem innovativen Zugang legt die Publikation eine vollständige semantische Analyse der nominalen Determination in beiden Sprachen vor, die auch artikellose Nominalphrasen umfasst.

  • av Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf
    593,-

    This series Dissertations in Language and Cognition explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center The structure of representations in language, cognition and science (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

  • av Koen van Hooste
    593,-

    This series Dissertations in Language and Cognition explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center The structure of representations in language, cognition and science (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

  • av Anselm L. Terhalle
    865,-

  • av Mattis List
    593,-

    This series Dissertations in Language and Cognition explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center The structure of representations in language, cognition and science (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

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