Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics
Author : Vida Samiian
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781879890046
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics, October 20-21, 1978
Author : Derry L. Malsch
Publisher : Carbondale [Ill.] ; Edmonton : Linguistic Research
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
Roots
Author : Sam Featherston
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110193152
Book Description
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Genericity
Author : Alda Mari
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191637041
Book Description
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics and pursues the enterprise of the influential Generic Book edited by Gregory Carlson and Jeffry Pelletier, which was published in 1995. Genericity is a key notion in the study of human cognition as it reveals our capacity to organize our perceived reality into classes and to describe regularities. The generic can be expressed at the level of a word or phrase (ie the potato in The Irish economy became dependent upon the potato) or an entire sentence (eg in John smokes a cigar after dinner, the generic aspect is a property of the expression, rather than any single word or phrase within it). This book gathers new work from senior and young researchers to reconsider the notion of genericity, examining the distinct contributions made by the determiner phrase (eg the notions of kind/individual) and the verbal predicate (eg the notions of permanency, disposition, ability, habituality, and plurality). Finally, in connection with the whole sentence, the analytic/synthetic distinction is discussed as well as the notion of normality. The book will appeal to both students and scholars in linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science
The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
Author : Robert Truswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191508462
Book Description
This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly. The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science, and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards.
Semantics - Noun Phrases and Verb Phrases
Author : Paul Portner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110589443
Book Description
Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area.
The Processing of Lexicon and Morphosyntax
Author : Linda Escobar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443861081
Book Description
This volume showcases a selection of empirical research reports presented at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference 2012 held at the National University of Distance Learning in Madrid. It deals with original experimental studies on the processing of language, with special emphasis on word access, word recognition, acquisition of vocabulary, and syntax development in numerous languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish, among others.
Telicity, Change, and State
Author : Violeta Demonte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199693498
Book Description
This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects of event structure by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies from a variety of languages. The book begins with an overview of the theoretical issues central to the volume, along with a brief presentation of the remaining chapters and the points of contact between them. The chapters, developed within several different theoretical perspectives, promote cross-theory as well as cross-linguistic comparison. The work will interest scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition who are interested in the notions of telicity, change, and stativity.
The Syntax of Russian
Author : John F. Bailyn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521885744
Book Description
An essential guide to Russian syntax, which examines major syntactic structures and grammatical puzzles of the language.
Selected Papers from SinFonIJA 3
Author : Maja Marković
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443846732
Book Description
The present volume is a selection of papers presented at the SinFoniJa 3 conference, held at the University of Novi Sad in October 2010. A wide range of linguistics-related topics were covered at this event, and the selection before you represents the variety and quality of research the editors wish to promote. It aims to uphold sound linguistic theorizing as the basis of natural language analysis and cutting-edge applied-linguistics concerns. Among the novel linguistic topics in the fields of syntax, phonology, semantics and natural language processing, the book includes (re)analyses of negative imperatives; constructions with multiple occurrences of the semantically interdependent indefinite expressions; future constructions; verbal categories; demonstrative reinforcers; word order and clitic doubling; control constituents; non-final information focus; clitic placement, named entity recognition; prosody prediction in speech synthesis; and covers data from various languages inlcuding English, Polish, Turkic, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Serbian and others. In addition, the research presented here shows why the assumptions regarding the interfaces of these domains, which we often take for granted, require solid empirical grounding.
