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The Syntax And Semantics Of Middle Constructions
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Author : Sarah M. B. Fagan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-05-21
The Syntax And Semantics Of Middle Constructions written by Sarah M. B. Fagan 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 1992-05-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This study provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the syntax and semantics of middle constructions in German, including those formed by using the auxiliary lassen 'let'. English and French middles are also treated in depth for comparative purposes. Sarah Fagan argues that middle constructions are not to be accounted for in the syntax, but rather in a bipartite lexicon consisting of Static and Dynamic components. This division of the lexicon helps to clarify the analysis in a number of ways. The author also considers middles in the context of recent work on generics, and examines Vendler's typology of aspectual verb classes in the light of middle formation in German and English. The study addresses a number of issues in the syntax of modern German relevant to our understanding of universal grammar: 1. the appearance of ergative predicates in German: 2. the implications of impersonal clauses in German: and 3. the use of reflexives in argument positions. The value of this study is greatly enhanced by the wealth of language data and descriptive detail given.
Middle Voice
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Author : Markus Steinbach
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2002-06-27
Middle Voice written by Markus Steinbach 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 2002-06-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent theories of binding. The ambiguity of the reflexive pronoun is derived at the interface between syntax and semantics and does not rely on additional lexical or syntactic rules of argument suppression and argument promotion. This shift towards the semantic interpretation of syntactic arguments enables the author to offer a unified analysis of the middle, the anticausative and the reflexive interpretations. Furthermore, the crucial distinction between structural and oblique case forms is discussed and it is illustrated how specific properties of middle constructions such as adverbial modification or subject responsibility can be related to the generic interpretation of middle constructions.
The Middle Construction In French And English
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Author : Christiane Fellbaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Middle Construction In French And English written by Christiane Fellbaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with English language categories.
The Syntax And Semantics Of Wh Constructions
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Author : Paul Hirschbuhler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-10
The Syntax And Semantics Of Wh Constructions written by Paul Hirschbuhler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This title, first published in 1985, provides a detailed analysis of aspects of the semantics and the syntax of some wh-constructions. The first part of the book deals with the semantics of questions, whilst the other part discusses the syntax of que and quoi (what) in questions in French and the syntax of free relatives in French and other languages. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Patient Subject Constructions In Mandarin Chinese
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Author : Xiaoling He
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-06-15
Patient Subject Constructions In Mandarin Chinese written by Xiaoling He 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 2019-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as ‘topicalization’, ‘passivization’ and ‘ergativization’, this book offers a fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent and divergent syntactic structures across the world’s languages. This book will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language Typology.
The Syntax And Semantics Of Split Constructions
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Author : A. Butler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-04-07
The Syntax And Semantics Of Split Constructions written by A. Butler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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 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.
The Syntax And Semantics Of Middle Constructions
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Author : Sarah M. B. Fagan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-05-21
The Syntax And Semantics Of Middle Constructions written by Sarah M. B. Fagan 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 1992-05-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"The study addresses a number of issues in the syntax of Modern German relevant to our understanding of universal grammar: 1. Lack of evidence for a class of ergative predicates in German suggests that while it is an option, ergativity is not instantiated in all grammars. 2. Impersonal clauses provide evidence that German allows subjectless clauses, suggesting that the Extended Projection Principle cannot be maintained as universal. 3. Reflexives in German are shown to be independent words capable of filling argument positions. Because they do not bear 0-roles in middle constructions, they provide evidence against the claim that complement positions are always 0-marked." "Although this study is carried out in the Government-Binding framework, the wealth of language data and descriptive detail presented here will be valuable to linguists working in any theoretical framework."--BOOK JACKET.
Chinese Middle Constructions
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Author : Jiajuan Xiong
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Chinese Middle Constructions written by Jiajuan Xiong and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by various constructions in Chinese. By scrutinizing these constructions in the framework of Generative Syntax, the book concludes that their formation takes place at the lexical level, without resorting to any syntactic mechanisms and thus that Chinese falls into the category of “lexical middle languages”, which are in contrast to “syntactic middle languages”.
Radical Construction Grammar
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Author : William Croft
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
Radical Construction Grammar written by William Croft and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.