Linguistics Meets Literature:
More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne
Riecker, Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 329
De Gruyter, 2020:05 254 pages 9783110638806 ¥22,868
Table of Contents
Part I: Individual Analyses
Introduction
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
I.1 “To pile like Thunder”: Lexical Ambiguity
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
I.2 “You said that I ‘was Great’”: Scales and Contextual Parameters
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
I.3 “I’m Nobody!”: Interpreting Quantifiers
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
I.4 “This was a Poet”: Identifying Referents – Definites and
Demonstratives
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
I.5 “If it had no pencil”: Identifying Referents – Pronouns
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
I.6 “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”: Semantic Mismatches and
Coercion
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker ,
Nadine Bade and Toggle Tree Node
Part II: Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Linguist, and the Linguist as Poet
II.1 The Poet as Linguist
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
II.2 The Linguist as Poet
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker ,
Nadine Bade and Toggle Tree Node
Part III: Benefits of Interdisciplinary Work
III.1 Poetry as a Data Source for Formal Linguistics
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
III.2 Formal Linguistics as a Tool in Literary Studies
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
Appendix
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
Bibliography
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade
Index
Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker,
Angelika Zirker and Nadine Bade