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This book addresses two crucial problems associated with the
phenomenon of Remnant Movement: First, what evidence can be brought
to bear in favor of, or opposing, Remnant Movement analyses of
linguistic phenomena? Secondly, what does the presence or absence
of Remnant Movement in the syntax tell us about constraints imposed
by Universal Grammar on syntactic operations?
Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical
linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current
research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is
as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as
determined in syntax, and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in
discourse as characterized in pragmatic terms. Though none of the
papers addresses this topic in its full breadth, they can all be
seen to make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the
pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating
detailed case studies. The first part of this collection comprises
three papers (by Asher, Portner, and van Rooy & Franke) devoted
to the semantics/pragmatics interface. The second part, with
contributions by Rizzi, Saito, and Belletti, deals with the
question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related
to properties of functional categories in the clausal periphery.The
last four papers (Boskovic, van Riemsdijk, Bauke & Roeper,
Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal
functional categories, revealing unexpected parallels between
clause structure and the internal structure, particularly in
lexical categories.
This volume explores new interfaces between linguistics and
jurisprudence. Its theoretical and methodological importance lies
in showing that many questions asked within the field of language
and law receive satisfactory answers from formal linguistics. The
book starts with a paper by the two editors in which they explain
why the volume - as a whole and with its individual papers - is an
innovation in the field of language and law. In addition, an
overview about the most important research projects on language and
law is given. The first chapter of the book is on understanding the
law. Jurists and laypersons always ask for the precise meaning of a
certain piece of the law. In linguistics, the discipline
investigating 'meaning' is semantics; thus, it is to be expected
that semantics can contribute to a correct understanding of the
law. Chapter 1 also investigates the alleged incomprehensibility of
legal language with the help of psycholinguistics. Chapter 2 is on
identifying the criminal. To find the author of a blackmailer's
letter, text/ corpus linguistics is instrumental. If the
blackmailer uses the telephone instead of the letter, speaker
identification and phonetics are necessary. The BKA stores all
blackmailing letters in a database, but databases are only one
possibility of organizing legal systems; another possibility is the
application of tools from computational linguistics and artificial
intelligence. These tools can be useful to handle terminology, to
retrieve information, or to model legal theorizing in a formal
system. Chapter 3 demonstrates a variety of examples of organizing
legal systems. The topic of chapter 4 is multilingualism and the
law. The European legislation is a product of legal and linguistic
diversity, as the member states do not only differ in languages but
also in their legal systems. One paper shows how Switzerland
handles its multilingualism in legal drafting. The input of
translation studies is of course vital in this field of research.
An index for both subjects and persons complements the volume.
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the
main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This
branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is
concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of
linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into
the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high
quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues.
The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from
syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to
studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a
proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert
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