Factivity: Its Nature and Acquisition
Challenging existing lexical-semantic accounts, this book presents a compositional approach to factivity and its acquisition. Factive sentences such as >John forgot that he bought wine< presuppose the truth of the embedded complement. The author argues that factivity results from the interaction of lexical-semantic, syntactic, and discourse-semantic factors. Rigorously designed experiments and a detailed analysis of longitudinal corpora provide evidence that the multidimensionality is mirrored in the acquisition process by a stepwise mastery of its different components. This book should be of interest to advanced students and researcher…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-484-30480-2
- EAN: 9783484304802
- Produktnummer: 12999326
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.9 cm 553 g
- Auflage: Reprint 2012
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 553
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