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The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions

Author : A. Butler

Publisher : Springer

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 35,57 MB

Release : 2004-04-07

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0230501605

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Split constructions are very widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a conceptual simplicity. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of syntax and semantics.



The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions

Author : Alastair Butler

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 41,43 MB

Release : 2004-09-04

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9781403921123

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Book Description

Split constructions are widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit--namely, a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a conceptual simplicity. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of syntax and semantics.



Radical Construction Grammar

Author : William Croft

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 448 pages

File Size : 43,30 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780198299547

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This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.



Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions

Author : Kimiko Nakanishi

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 26,89 MB

Release : 2008-08-27

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110198487

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This book investigates the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of measurement constructions, such as (non-)split quantifiers and comparatives. The cross-linguistic investigation reveals that seemingly diverse constructions can be categorized into two classes depending on whether they measure nominal or verbal predicates, and shows that the classification accounts for why certain constructions have certain characteristics concerning distributivity and single-event predicates. Throughout the book, particular emphasis is placed on issues of compositionality.



Discontinuous NPs in German

Author : Kordula De Kuthy

Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 16,78 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN :

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This book investigates the occurrence of discontinuous noun phrases, arguing that many of the factors that previous literature has tried to explain in terms of syntactic restrictions on movements are in fact derivable from discourse factors. De Kuthy's HPSG and information-structure analyses provide an exemplary argument for rethinking the division of labor between syntax and a theory of discourse.





Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology

Author : William Croft

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 31,58 MB

Release : 2020-09-25

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 900436353X

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Book Description

In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.



The Grammar of French Quantification

Author : Lena Baunaz

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 269 pages

File Size : 17,30 MB

Release : 2011-03-02

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9400706219

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This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and showing that they can be reduced to two classes—Split-DP structures or Floating quantification. Relying on syntax and semantics, the book establishes a three-way structural typology of wh in-situ phrases and extends it to existentials. It pays special attention to the prosodic properties associated with their different readings and proposes an analysis of the distribution of subextraction and pied-piping. Similarly based on semantic and syntactic tests, the book reveals N(egative) words to be universal Quantifiers. It proposes a new structure of N-words in terms of constituent negation and includes a detailed analysis of the difference between not an N and not all the N in French.



Argument Structure in Flux

Author : Elly van Gelderen

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 588 pages

File Size : 17,9 MB

Release : 2013-06-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 902727228X

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The present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument structure and verb classes; unexpressed arguments; split intransitivity; and existential and presentational constructions. The articles also cover a variety of typologically different languages, and they offer new data from under-researched languages on the issues of event and argument structure. In some cases novel perspectives from widely discussed languages on highly debated topics are offered, also addressing more theoretical aspects concerning the predictability and derivation of linking. Several contributions apply current models of the lexicon–syntax interface to synchronic data. Other contributions focus on diachrony and are based on extensive use of corpora. Yet others, although empirically and theoretically grounded, privilege a methodological discussion, presenting analyses based on thorough and long-standing fieldwork.