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 researchers in both theoretical linguistics and language acquisition.
| ISBN: | 9783484304802 |
| Publication date: | 5th October 2003 |
| Author: | Petra Schulz |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 262 pages |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten |
| Genres: |
Language acquisition Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Language teaching and learning |
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.
Factivity features in the following genres: Language acquisition, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language teaching and learning
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Factivity was written by Petra Schulz and published by De Gruyter
Factivity has 262 pages
Yes it is part of Linguistische Arbeiten series
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