Peter Kosta

List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter Kosta is involved.

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Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces

Edited by Peter Kosta, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks

The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its… read more
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 11] 2014. vi, 423 pp.
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Approaches to Slavic Interaction

Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta

This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities. The core of this volume ranges from discourse analysis in the tradition of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis to newer methods of… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.

Articles

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Kosta, Peter and Diego Gabriel Krivochen 2014 Flavors of movement: Revisiting the A/A′ distinctionMinimalism 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
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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
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Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta 2013 Introduction and overviewApproaches to Slavic Interaction, Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
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