Author : Louise McNally
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199211612
This book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. It integrates lexical and compositional semantics and provides a full account of the structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs. It will interest students in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above.
Author : Marcin Morzycki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107009758
An accessible guide to the linguistic semantics of adjectives, adverbs, gradability, vagueness, comparatives, and modification more generally.
Author : Naděžda Kudrnáčová
Publisher : Hledání flow
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN : 8021045221
Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107354587
Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
Author : Martin Schäfer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110278286
The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. In particular, it is an open question which different adverbial usages need to be distinguished, which usages are tied to which syntactic positions, and how these different usage can be formally analyzed. Focussing on adverbial adjectives in German, this study provides detailed answers to these questions. By distinguishing between verb-related adverbials and event-related adverbials, the author provides a new analysis of the large class of adverbials traditionally labelled as manner adverbials. It is shown that the two different classes are linked to different syntactic positions, and formal analyses and derivations for the two different usages are developed. The book is therefore of interest not only to anyone working on the linguistics of German but also to all linguists working on the syntax-semantics interface and the formal analysis of adverbials.
Author : Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110623137
Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and conceptual structure of words and their meaning extensions such as coercion, metaphors and metonymies. The book features highly cited material – available in paperback for the first time since its publication – and is an essential starting point for anyone interested in lexical semantics, especially where it meets other cognitive and conceptual research.
Author : Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1079 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110255073
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Author : Chiara Gianollo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110394928
Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
Author : Jens Fleischhauer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110720299
The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.
Author : Bridget Copley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191652199
This book brings together research on the topic of causation from experts in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It seeks to arrive at a more sophisticated understanding both of how causal concepts are expressed in causal meanings, and how those meanings in turn are organized into structures. Chapters address some of the most exciting current issues in the field, including the relata of causal relations; the representation of defeasible causation within verb phrases and at the level of modality; the difference between direct and indirect causal chains; and the representation of these chains in syntax. The book examines data from a wide variety of languages, such as Tohono O'odham, Finnish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Karachay-Balkar, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists, as well as psycholinguists and philosophers, from graduate level upwards.
