Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces
Edited by Peter Kosta, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 11] 2014. vi, 423 pp.
Peter Kosta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Kosta plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Slavic Interaction
Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta
[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics
Articles
2014 Flavors of movement: Revisiting the A/A′ distinction Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, Kosta, Peter, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks (eds.), pp. 236–266 | Article
In this paper we revisit a distinction that has been core to GB and Minimalist approaches to the property of displacement in natural languages: the opposition between A(rgumental) and A′ (non-argumental) positions, as sources and targets of the general operation Move-α. Minimalism brought an… read more
2013 How can I lie if I am telling the truth? The unbearable lightness of being of strong and weak modals, modal adverbs and modal particles in discourse between epistemic modality and evidentiality Approaches to Slavic Interaction, Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta (eds.), pp. 167–184 | Article
The major part of my contribution will concentrate on the close relation between epistemic modality and evidentiality and the notions of truth value, indirect speech acts and conversational implicature (cf. Kosta 2005; Kosta 2011b). It is well attested in the literature that the epistemic modal… read more
2013 Introduction and overview Approaches to Slavic Interaction, Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article