Meta-informative Centering in Utterances : Between Semantics and Pragmatics.

Personal subject pronouns are used as meta-informative markers in classical Latin. Given that they are optional when the utterance contains a personal-ending verb, we put forward the hypothesis that they inherently emphasise the person already involved by the personal ending of the verb. Careful obs...

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Main Author: Wlodarczyk, André
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Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Series:Studies in language companion series.
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505 0 |a Meta-informative Centering in Utterances; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents ; Introduction; 1. Information and meta-information; 2. Attention centering; 3. Between semantics and pragmatics; 4. Overview of the contributions to this volume; 4.1 Associative semantics and meta-informative centering; 4.2 Neuropsychological evidence for the MIC theory; 4.3 Meta-informative centering in languages; 4.3.1 Discourse coherence in English and Japanese; 4.3.2 Verbal aspect in Slavic languages between semantics and pragmatics. 
505 8 |a 4.3.3 Tonic and atonic personal pronouns in modern Russian, classical Greek and LatinReferences; Roles and anchors of semantic situations ; 1. Human communication as a composite partial function; 2. Language and ontology; 2.1 Semantic theory of natural language from the ontological perspective; 2.2 Entities: Agents and figures; 3. Relations, roles and anchors; 3.1 Role component; 3.2 Anchor component; 4. Associative semantics: Examples of analysis; 5. Further research; Frames of semantic situations; 1. The structure of semantic situations; 1.1 Space; 1.2 Time; 1.3 Progression. 
505 8 |a 1.4 Granularity2. The partial ordering of semantic situations; 2.1 The hierarchy of types of situation; 2.2 The situation frames model; 3. Examples of types of semantic situations; 3.1 States; 3.2 Events; 3.3 Ordinary processes; 3.4 Refined rocessses; 4. Representations and formalisation; 4.1 Semantic situations and Petri nets; 4.2 Semantic situations and "event structures and the structures of configuration of events"; References; grounding of the meta-informative status of utterances; 1. Introduction; 2. Information and meta-information. 
505 8 |a 3. Oldness and newness revisited: The meta-informative status of utterances4. Grounding of the meta-informative old/new status; 5. Information centering structure; 6. Aboutness and agentivity; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Attention-centered information in language; 1. Introduction; 2. Centres of Attention and Attention-Driven Phrases; 3. Attention-Driven Phrases (ADP) in Base and Extended Utterances; 3.1 Attention-Driven phrases of base utterances: Subject and object; 3.2 Attention-Driven Phrases of extended utterances: Topic and focus. 
505 8 |a 3.3 Interpreting a noun phrase as subject or object3.4 Subject of passive utterances compared with topicalised Object of active utterances; 4. Subject in Different Types of Languages; 4.1 Subject and category of person: Explicit subject; 4.2 Implicit subject; 4.3 Implicit Subject and Topic; 4.4 Topic prominency and subject prominency; 4.5 Anonymous Subject; 4.6 Interpreting topicalised objects in active impersonal utterances (with an anonymous subject); 5. Word-order as a meta-informative marker; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Abreviations; References. 
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