Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part 1. Associative semantics and meta-informative centering
6. Roles and anchors of semantic situations 3
7. Frames of semantic situations 21
8. Grounding of the meta-informative status of utterances 41
9. Attention-centered information in language 59
10. Part 2. Neuropsychological evidence for the MIC theory
11. Semantic and episodic memory by reference to the ontological grounding of the old and new meta-informative status 103
12. Tracing the role of memory and attention for the meta-informative validation of utterances 121
13. Part 3. Meta-informative centering in languages
14. It -clefts in the meta-informative structure of the utterance in Modern and Present-day English 145
15. Discourse coherence and referent identification of subject ellipsis in Japanese 167
16. Structure of centre of attention in a multi-party conversation in Japanese 183
17. Verbal aspect in Slavic languages between semantics and pragmatics 193
18. The position in the utterance and the melodic realisation of object and reflexive pronouns in classical modern literary Russian 231
19. Accented and unaccented pronouns in Ancient Greek 259
20. Personal subject pronouns and the meta-informative centering of utterances in classical Latin 285
21. Glossary of defined terminology 297
22. Index 303