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The Intonation of English Statements and Questions

A Compositional Interpretation

By Christine Bartels

English sentence prosody provides cues to both focus structure and speaker attitude. Taking the phonological model of intonation developed by Pierrehumbert (1880 et seq.)…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3356-2 (Routledge)

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Projecting the Adjective

The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison

By Christopher Kennedy

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3349-4 (Routledge)

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Pragmatics of Conditional Marking

Implicature, Scalarity, and Exclusivity

By Sandra Hirshkowith

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3309-8 (Routledge)

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Phrase Structures in Competition

Variation and Change in Old English Word Order

By Susan Pintzuk

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3269-5 (Routledge)

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Resolving Hiatus

By Roderic F. Casali

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3149-0 (Routledge)

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Grammatical Case Assignment in Finnish

By Diane C. Nelson

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3180-3 (Routledge)

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Event Semantics of Verb Frame Alternations

A Case Study of Dutch and Its Acquisition

By Angeliek Van Hout

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3128-5 (Routledge)

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