The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of the Comparative Construction
Author : G. J. M. Gazdar
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
The Syntax and Semantics of Comparative Correlatives
Author : Eiichi Iwasaki
Publisher : 株式会社 三恵社
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 4864877297
Book Description
The Syntax and Semantics of Comparative Correlatives: A Generative-Cognitive Language Design is a long awaited collection of the author's published articles and their revisions in an attempt to present a thorough and consistent analysis of the syntax and semantics of this most challenging construction. A must for anyone currently engaged in or considering writing about the Comparative Correlative.
The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions
Author : A. Butler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230501605
Book Description
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 : 40,10 MB
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781403921123
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.
The Syntax and Semantics of Comparative Constructions
Author : Charles J. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Semantics
ISBN :
Book Description
Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Author : Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527569691
Book Description
This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka (Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia), Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.
Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse
Author : Ferenc Kiefer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027251091
Book Description
Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17 essays in this book celebrate his career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics: pragmatics in grammar (de Groot, van Riemsdijk, Dressler & Barbaresi, Comrie), semantic compositionality and pragmatics (Wunderlich, Partee, Borschev, Szabo, Bach), logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics (van der Auwera, Bultinck, Burton-Roberts, Harnish, Wierzbicka) dialogue and thematic structure (Jonasson, Doherty, Hajicova, Panevova, Sgall, Allwood, Fraser).
Where Semantics meets Pragmatics
Author : Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 008046260X
Book Description
The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics and contributors ensures that each chapter integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, that each finds an adequate division of theoretical labour and that each attempts to design and corroborate an elegant account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. Importantly, each paper in the volume focuses on linguistic detail, not merely abstract discussions of a theoretical nature. Thus each paper makes extensive reference to the semantic and pragmatic facts of English and also other languages. This reference gives each of the proposed analyses a more adequate empirical edge and a sharper theoretical focus. This book is a must for all scholars and students interested in the new and vibrant discipline of semantics-pragmatics and to anyone who is fascinated by the prospect of working beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of linguistics and the philosophy of language. The chapters in this volume originate from a workshop at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, held at Michigan State University.
Constructions in Use
Author : Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110720337
Book Description
Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has been questioned recently by linguists who embrace a research paradigm that is known as construction grammar. As construction grammar is use-based, it seems natural to suppose that its success is indirect support for use-based semantics in philosophy. This is true. But there's still a lot to do. Although there are use-based theories that fit quite well with current research in linguistics, they are far from being perfect. In particular, the most popular theory in that area is still tied to some of the main motivations behind truth-conditional semantics. 'Constructions in Use' offers an alternative by proposing to let this legacy go. Instead, it argues that philosophical semantics is best off if it goes for an entirely use-based theory. This series 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.
Aspects of Comparative Constructions
Author : Maria-Margarita Makri
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN :
