: Günther Grewendorf, Thomas Ede Zimmermann
: Discourse and Grammar From Sentence Types to Lexical Categories
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9781614511601
: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN
: 1
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Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research of form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is the relation between the major clause types and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse. Though none of the papers addresses the topic in its full breadth, they all make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies.



< dir=ltr align=left>Günther Grewendorf, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany;Thomas Ede Zimmermann, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.

Introduction7
Part I. Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Sentence Types15
Implicatures in Discourse17
Permission and Choice49
Promises and Threats with Conditionals and Disjunctions75
Part II. Sentence Types and Clausal Peripheries95
Revisiting the CP of Clefts97
Delimitation Effects and the Cartography of the Left Periphery121
Sentence Types and the Japanese Right Periphery153
Part III. Clausal Properties of Lexical Categories183
On NPs and Clauses185
Discerning Default Datives: Some Properties of the Dative Case in German253
How Phase-Based Interpretations Dictate the Typology of Nominalizations295
Scope and Verb Meanings327