Explorations Of The Syntax Semantics Interface
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Explorations Of The Syntax Semantics Interface
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Author : Jens Fleischhauer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-09-15
Explorations Of The Syntax Semantics Interface written by Jens Fleischhauer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Exploring The Syntax Semantics Interface
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Author : Robert D. van Valin, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-07-07
Exploring The Syntax Semantics Interface written by Robert D. van Valin, Jr. and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. This book looks in detail at how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Working within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), Van Valin proposes a set of rules, called the 'linking algorithm', which relates syntactic and semantic representations to each other, with discourse-pragmatics playing a role in the linking. Using this model, he discusses the full range of grammatical phenomena, including the structures of simple and complex sentences, verb and argument structure, voice, reflexivization and extraction restrictions. Clearly written and comprehensive, this book will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
The Acquisition Of Verbs At The Syntax Semantics Interface
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Author : Paolo Lorusso
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-11
The Acquisition Of Verbs At The Syntax Semantics Interface written by Paolo Lorusso and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents theoretical and experimental analyses of the nature of early verbs. At around the age of two years old, children start to combine words and produce their first verbs. Verbal items appear later than nouns in a child’s speech and refer to the relational concepts in the world that are represented in syntax through the argument structure. The central set of data investigated here is based on the analysis of the features of first verbal productions in Italian. Since the appearance of verbs implies the mastery of a mapping procedure between syntactic positions and semantic roles, the syntactic regularities found for each lexical verb class suggest that the relation at the syntax-semantics interface is well-established early on. The non-adult-like sentences are those which involve the mastery of the scope-discourse semantic interface or higher functional syntactic categories. The analysis of the delay in the production and comprehension of some constructions here uncovers some general characteristics of language acquisition devices.
The Syntax And Semantics Of The Left Periphery
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Author : Horst Lohnstein
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-04-17
The Syntax And Semantics Of The Left Periphery written by Horst Lohnstein and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades. Closer examination of its properties unfolds a rich array of perspectives like the status of barriers for extraction and government, the articulation of the topic focus structure, the fixation of wh-scope, the marking of clausal types, the interaction of syntactic structure with inflectional morphology as well as the determination of sentence mood and illocutionary force to mention just a few. The purpose of this book is to collect different and relevant studies in this field and to give a general overview of the various theoretical approaches concerned with morphological, syntactic and semantic properties together with the diachronic development of the left periphery.
The Interfaces Of Chinese Syntax With Semantics And Pragmatics
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Author : Yicheng Wu
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-02-17
The Interfaces Of Chinese Syntax With Semantics And Pragmatics written by Yicheng Wu and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-17 with Foreign Language Study categories.
4.1 Predicative construction -- 4.2 Emphatic construction -- 5 Summary -- 7 The cleft construction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous analyses -- 3 A dynamic analysis -- 4 Summary -- 8 Semantic underspecification: Cases of personal pronouns -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous analysis of expletive ta -- 3 A dynamic analysis -- 3.1 A dynamic analysis of the typical and non-typical referential construal of ta -- 3.2 A dynamic analysis of the expletive construal of ta -- 3.3 Scope interpretation and expletive ta -- 3.4 Some implications -- 4 Summary -- 9 Conclusion -- 1 Contributions to Chinese linguistics -- 2 Reflections on linguistic theorizing -- Bibliography -- Index
Events And Predication
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Author : Montserrat Sanz
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2000-10-20
Events And Predication written by Montserrat Sanz and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The mapping between event and syntactic predicate types, including detransitives, is given a minimalist account based on the functional categories that embed event features and on a careful analysis of the features checked by objects. As the book delves into the theoretical issue of how parameters are characterized, it presents the most comprehensive account to date of event type phenomena in Spanish, an innovative analysis of the clitic SE and a re-definition of unaccusativity. The theory is then applied to the ongoing issues in the sentence processing literature. A proposal is made for an update of the current data in light of these latest linguistic discoveries.
Manual Of Grammatical Interfaces In Romance
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Author : Susann Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-09-12
Manual Of Grammatical Interfaces In Romance written by Susann Fischer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.
Pronouns In Embedded Contexts At The Syntax Semantics Interface
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Author : Pritty Patel-Grosz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-18
Pronouns In Embedded Contexts At The Syntax Semantics Interface written by Pritty Patel-Grosz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a window into the nature of pronouns. Pronouns in such environments not only exhibit familiar distinctions such as that between bound and referential pronouns; if they refer to the attitude holder, they also participate in a broader range of phenomena, e.g., distinguishing between a de se reading (involving a conscious self-directed belief) and a de re reading (involving an accidental belief about oneself). Topics covered include: the semantics of attitude reports that contain pronominal elements, the semantics of pronominal features and their connection to indexicality, new insights in the connection of pronominal typology and logophoricity or anti-logophoricity, and finally, the localization of embedded pronouns within a bigger picture involving the nature of perspective and the analysis of quasi-pronominal phenomena such as sequence of tense.
Lexical Functional Grammar
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Author : Mary Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2001-08-08
Lexical Functional Grammar written by Mary Dalrymple and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Volume 34 of Syntax and Semantics is a thorough and accessible overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation of different aspects of linguistic structure and the relations that hold between them. The book motivates and describes the two syntactic structures of LFG: surface phrasal organization is represented by a context-free phrase structure tree, and more abstract functional syntactic relations like subject and object are represented separately, at functional structure.The book also presents a theory of semantics and the syntax-semantics interface in which the meaning of an utterance is obtained via deduction from semantic premises contributed by its parts. Clear explication of the formal aspects of the theory is provided throughout, and differences between LFG and other linguistic theories are explored. The theory is illustrated by the analysis of a varied set of linguistic phenomena, including modification, control, anaphora, coordination, and long-distance dependencies. Besides its interest to linguists, LFG also has practical applications in computational linguistics and computer science.This book offers thorough overview of the state of the art in Lexical Functional Grammar. It presents clear explanation of the formal tools of the theory. It also offers introduction to the "glue" semantics, a theory of the syntax-semantics interface. It also presents in-depth syntactic and semantic analysis of a variety of linguistic constructions.
Typical And Atypical Language Development In Cultural And Linguistic Diversity
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Author : Weifeng Han
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-29
Typical And Atypical Language Development In Cultural And Linguistic Diversity written by Weifeng Han and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity brings together state-of-the-art studies in both typical and atypical language development. Placing the topic in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD), the book offers readers serious theoretical consideration of the topic and provides implications for multilingual educational and clinical practices. The content covers a wide range of topics related to multilingual language development in CALD: typical and atypical language development in CALD, and the interface between both; the relationship between multilingual competence and academic performance in CALD; providing unbiased speech and language measures in CALD; and heritage and minority languages education in CALD. Each chapter outlines the core theoretical and practical issues and explores both theoretical and pedagogical/clinical implications in the area and possible future developments. This volume is an essential resource for all those who study, research, or are interested in multilingual development, educational linguistics, and clinical linguistics in the CALD context.