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Binding theory seeks to explain how different kinds of nominal
expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns have anaphoric
relations amongst one another, and how they come to have reference
to things in the world. This textbook provides a thorough and
comprehensive introduction to modern binding theory. Starting at a
very basic level, it introduces the reader to a huge variety of
nominal and especially pronominal expressions from the world's
languages, the ways they can be used, and current theorising about
their grammatical properties and their interpretation. Daniel
Buring discusses a wide range of cross-linguistic data and
theoretical approaches, and unlike in existing introductions, pairs
the discussion of syntactic facts with a detailed introduction to
the semantic interpretation of binding structures. Written in a
clear and accessible style, and with numerous exercises and
examples, this textbook will be invaluable to graduate and advanced
undergraduate students of syntax and semantics.
This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of
the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and
pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred
on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic
interpretation for two different pitch accents - Focus and Topic -
is developed. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal
semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment.
The account is based on Montogovian possible world semantics and
Chomskian generative syntax.
Provides an account of the complex interaction of intonational
phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German
and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation
contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents
- focus and topic - is developed. The cross-sentence, as well as
the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow
from the given treatment. The account is based on Montagovian
possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax. The
theory, based on that of Rooth, allows for a maximally tripartite
information structure, consisting of (an optional) sentence-topic,
background and focus. Both focus and sentence-topic correspond to
distinct tone sequences in the sense of Pierrehumbert's
decompositional theory of pitch accents. Rooth's treatment of focus
is adopted and supplemented with a theory of sentence-topic
interpretation, which consists of topic effect on the
appriopriateness conditions and topic implicatures. Among the
phenomena discussed are: question-answer congruence; contrastive
topics; and topic implicatures.
Binding theory seeks to explain how different kinds of nominal
expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns have anaphoric
relations amongst one another, and how they come to have reference
to things in the world. This textbook provides a thorough and
comprehensive introduction to modern binding theory. Starting at a
very basic level, it introduces the reader to a huge variety of
nominal and especially pronominal expressions from the world's
languages, the ways they can be used, and current theorising about
their grammatical properties and their interpretation. Daniel
Buring discusses a wide range of cross-linguistic data and
theoretical approaches, and unlike in existing introductions, pairs
the discussion of syntactic facts with a detailed introduction to
the semantic interpretation of binding structures. Written in a
clear and accessible style, and with numerous exercises and
examples, this textbook will be invaluable to graduate and advanced
undergraduate students of syntax and semantics.
This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay
between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and
interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis.
Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances
by changing the location of stress or of pauses, and by choosing
the melody of their sentences. Although these factors often do not
change the literal meaning of what is said, linguists have in
recent years found tools and models to describe these more elusive
aspects of linguistic meaning. This volume provides a guide to what
we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and
melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and
emphasis. Daniel Buring presents the main phenomena involved, and
introduces the details of current formal analyses of prosodic
structure, relevant aspects of discourse structure, intonational
meaning, and, most importantly, the relations between them. He
explains and compares the most influential theories in these areas,
and outlines the questions that remain open for future research.
This wide-ranging book involves aspects of phonetics, phonology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and will be of interest to
researchers and students in all of these fields, from advanced
undergraduate level upwards.
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