Syntax And Meaning
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Semantics
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Author : Igor A. Mel?uk
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2012-06-06
Semantics written by Igor A. Mel?uk 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 2012-06-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct transition from a Semantic Representation of the Meaning of a family of synonymous sentences to the Deep Syntactic Representation of a particular sentence. Framed in the terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, this volume discusses in detail the problems of Semantic Representation —including the semantic structure of utterances, the semantics of Causation in English, and communicative, or information, structure. Based on the author’s life-long dedication to the study of the semantics and syntax of natural language, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to the language sciences whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.
The Semantics Of Syntax
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Author : Denis Bouchard
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-12
The Semantics Of Syntax written by Denis Bouchard and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
During the last thirty years, most linguists and philosophers have assumed that meaning can be represented symbolically and that the mental processing of language involves the manipulation of symbols. Scholars have assembled strong evidence that there must be linguistic representations at several abstract levels—phonological, syntactic, and semantic—and that those representations are related by a describable system of rules. Because meaning is so complex, linguists often posit an equally complex relationship between semantic and other levels of grammar. The Semantics of Syntax is an elegant and powerful analysis of the relationship between syntax and semantics. Noting that meaning is underdetermined by form even in simple cases, Denis Bouchard argues that it is impossible to build knowledge of the world into grammar and still have a describable grammar. He thus proposes simple semantic representations and simple rules to relate linguistic levels. Focusing on a class of French verbs, Bouchard shows how multiple senses can be accounted for by the assumption of a single abstract core meaning along with background information about how objects behave in the world. He demonstrates that this move simplifies the syntax at no cost to the descriptive power of the semantics. In two important final chapters, he examines the consequences of his approach for standard syntactic theories.
Surface Syntax Of English
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Author : Igor A. Mel?uk
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Surface Syntax Of English written by Igor A. Mel?uk 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 1986-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete coverage of English surface syntax, and (3) an exposition oriented towards human readers (rather than computers). The book can be recommended for several categories of readers: specialists in English syntax, linguists interested in general and theoretical syntax, computational linguists, researchers in related fields (including psychology and artificial intelligence) concerned with automatic processing (both synthesis and analysis) of English texts.
Word Meaning And Syntax
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Author : Stephen Wechsler
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-03-20
Word Meaning And Syntax written by Stephen Wechsler and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics. It approaches the interface from both sides of the relation, and surveys a range of views on the mapping between them, with an emphasis on lexical approaches to argument structure. Stephen Wechsler begins by analysing the fundamental problem of word meaning, with discussions of vagueness and polysemy, complemented with a look at the roles of world knowledge and normative aspects of word meaning. He then surveys the argument-taking properties of verbs and other predicators, and presents key theories of lexical semantic structure. Later chapters provide a description of formal theories and frameworks for capturing the mapping from word meaning to syntactic structure, as well as arguments in favour of a lexicalist approach to argument structure. The book will interest scholars of theoretical linguistics, particularly in the fields of syntax and lexical semantics, as well as those interested in psycholinguistics and philosophy of language.
Syntax
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Author : P. H. Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1981-07-30
Syntax written by P. H. Matthews 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 1981-07-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This textbook introduces the basic concepts of syntax. The approach is thematic, dealing with the nature of syntactic relations and the main types of construction (predication, attribution, coordination etc.). Professor Matthews draws attention to the weakness of much current syntactic theory and considers the problem of indeterminacy, which theorists have been unable to treat in any systematic way.
Grammar And Meaning
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Author : James D. McCawley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Grammar And Meaning written by James D. McCawley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
Dependency Syntax
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Author : Igor Mel'cuk
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1987-09-30
Dependency Syntax written by Igor Mel'cuk and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and stimulating analyses Mel'cuk promotes syntactic description in terms of dependency rather than in terms of more familiar phrase-structure. The notions of dependency relations and dependency structure are introduced and substantiated, and the advantages of dependency representation are demonstrated by applying it to a number of popular linguistic problems, e.g. grammatical subject and ergative construction. A wide array of linguistic data is used - the well-known (Dyirbal), the less known (Lezgian), and the more recent (Alutor). Several "exotic" cases of Russian are discussed to show how dependency can be used to solve difficult technical problems. The book is not only formal and rigorous, but also strongly theory-oriented and data-based. Special attention is paid to linguistic terminology, specifically to its logical consistency. The dependency formalism is presented within the framework of a new semantics-oriented general linguistic theory, Meaning-Text theory.
Syntax
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Author : Robert D. Van Valin (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-12-11
Syntax 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 1997-12-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An introduction to syntactic theory and analysis.
Semantics
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Author : Igorʹ Aleksandrovič Melʹčuk
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2012
Semantics written by Igorʹ Aleksandrovič Melʹčuk and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
Framed in the terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, the present volume discusses several linguistic notions crucial to the development of Meaning-Text models of natural languages: semantic/syntactic actants, government pattern, lexical functions, linguistic connotations, phrasemes, the meaning of grammatical cases, and linguistic dependencies.
Flexible Syntax
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Author : A. Neeleman
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Flexible Syntax written by A. Neeleman and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Most linguistic theories assume that each grammatical relation is established in a unique structural configuration. Neeleman and Weerman take issue with this view, arguing for a more flexible approach on the basis of conceptual considerations and data taken mostly, but not exclusively, from the Germanic languages. In-depth analyses of word order phenomena as well as diachronic and typological generalizations motivate a re-evaluation of the role of case in the projection of arguments. Case is shown to provide a syntactic foothold for thematic interpretation, something which is necessary in a grammar that does not allow fixed theta-positions. Thus, this study does not only offer a genuine alternative to many standard assumptions, it also explains why there should be such a thing as case in natural language.