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9781575863764
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.Stefan Kaufmann is the author of 'The Construction of Meaning', published 2002 under ISBN 9781575863764 and ISBN 1575863766.
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