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