Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds
offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and
comprehension. This volume takes a genuinely cross-linguistic approach integrating
theoretically well-founded contrastive descriptions with thorough empirical investigations.
Authors answer questions on the topic of how we 'encode' complex thoughts into linguistic
signals and how we interpret such signals in appropriate ways. Chapters combine on- and
off-line empirical methods varying from large-scale corpus analyses over acceptability
judgements sentence completion studies and reading time experiments. The authors shed new
light on the central questions related to our everyday use of language especially the problem
of how we construe meaning in and through language in general as well as through the means
provided by particular languages.
