The Syntax And Semantics Of Predication
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The Syntax And Semantics Of Predication
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Author : Texas Linguistics Society. Conference
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Syntax And Semantics Of Predication written by Texas Linguistics Society. Conference and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
Topics In The Syntax And Semantics Of Infinitives And Gerunds
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Author : Gennaro Chierchia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-10
Topics In The Syntax And Semantics Of Infinitives And Gerunds written by Gennaro Chierchia 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 1988, is an inquiry into the nature of predication in natural language. The study is based on the hypothesis that infinitives and gerunds are not clausal or propositional constructions and attempts to provide support for such a hypothesis, whilst also drawing from analysis of various anaphoric phenomena. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
The Syntax Of Adjuncts
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Author : Thomas Ernst
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-12-20
The Syntax Of Adjuncts written by Thomas Ernst 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 2001-12-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic principles specific to adverbials; rather, for the most part, adverbials adjoin freely to any projection. Adjuncts' possible hierarchical positions are determined by whether they can receive a proper interpretation, according to their selectional (including scope) requirements and general compositional rules, while linear order is determined by hierarchical position along with a system of directionality principles and morphological weight, both of which apply generally to adjuncts and all other syntactic elements. A wide range of adverbial types is analysed; predicational adverbs (such as manner, and modal adverbs), domain expressions like financially, temporal, frequency, duration and focusing adverbials; participant PPs (e.g. locatives and benefactives); resultative and conditional clauses, and others, taken primarily from English, Chinese, French and Italian, with occasional reference to others (such as German and Japanese).
Telicity And The Syntax Semantics Of The Object And Subject
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Author : Miren J. Hodgson
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2010-08
Telicity And The Syntax Semantics Of The Object And Subject written by Miren J. Hodgson and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This dissertation presents a study on the acquisition of telicity by Spanish and English native speakers. In addition to the study of acquisition, it investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of locatum constructions (e.g., the water filled the bucket), which are sentences that contain two internal arguments and whose subject is non-agentive. This dissertation explores the syntactic and semantic properties of elements of the verb phrase that had not been previously considered in the interpretation of telicity, such as the role of non-agentive subjects and the type of movement that takes place in the checking of the verb's telic features. Contrary to the assumption that only the direct internal argument of the verb can delimit an event, I argue that objects generated in the lower verb phrase, by virtue of being an internal argument of the verb can delimit an event. An object delimits an event by checking the verb's telic features in spec-AspP, either by covert or overt movement. If a predicate contains one internal argument (e.g., the boy filled the bucket) the checking of the verb's telic features takes place via covert movement. That is, only the NPs specific quantification features move covertly to check the verb's telic features in spec-AspP. However, if the predicate contains two internal arguments (e.g., fill the bucket with water), the surfaced subject (e.g., the water filled the bucket) by virtue of being an internal argument of the verb, checks the verb's telic features as the category and its features move overtly to subject position. The study shows that young children understand telicity when the verb's telic features are checked via overt movement, but have difficulties understanding telicity when the verb's telic features are checked via covert movement. I propose that predicates whose telicity involves overt movement should be acquired earlier than predicates whose telicity involves covert movement because overt movement is an operation that happens between D-structure and S-structure before the sentence is pronounced. Predicates whose telicity involves covert movement might be acquired at a later age of development because covert movement happens between S-structure and LF after the sentence is pronounced.
The Syntax And Semantics Of Referential Attitude Reports
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Author : Peter Ludlow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Syntax And Semantics Of Referential Attitude Reports written by Peter Ludlow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
Syntax And Semantics Of Prepositions
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Author : Patrick Saint-Dizier
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-01-18
Syntax And Semantics Of Prepositions written by Patrick Saint-Dizier 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 2006-01-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is the first to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. The reader will benefit from a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks, among which, most notably, HPSG. The book is for researchers working in the fields of computational linguistics, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.
Aspect And Predication
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Author : Gillian Ramchand
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997
Aspect And Predication written by Gillian Ramchand and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book investigates the systematic correspondences between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation in the domain of predicate-argument relationships. It takes as its starting point the striking effects of nominal argument interpretation on aspectual semantics, pursuing the intuition that these effects are not quirky or exceptional, but are in fact the most visible reflexes of a more pervasive and systematic interaction between the aspectual event structure of a predicate and its arguments. The Scottish Gaelic language is the empirical base of the investigation, as it exhibits a set of predicational structures which interact in a highly visible way with its aspectual system. The book provides a detailed working out of a semantic system of argument classification which moves away from lexically-driven thematic roles in the traditional sense and towards a more constrained, syntactically motivated, set of primitives.
Current Formal Aspects Of Spanish Syntax And Semantics
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Author : Melvin González-Rivera
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-25
Current Formal Aspects Of Spanish Syntax And Semantics written by Melvin González-Rivera 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 2012-04-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a compilation of articles on different aspects of Spanish grammar in the areas of current theoretical syntax and semantics. The issue brings together scholars working on some formal aspects of Spanish predicative complementation (e.g., dequeísmo), neuter demonstrative pronouns, the subject of Psych verbs, the nature of non-verbal predication, and the internal structure of the Determiner Phrase (DP), cf. gender variation, among other topics. Linguists and philologists with interests in Spanish and/or in other Romance languages are the main target audience. The book will appeal also to researchers and students specializing in generative grammar, semantics and in the syntax/semantics interface. It will also be of interest to historical linguists and dialectologists addressing theoretical/formal issues (cf. Afro-Bolivian Spanish). The research in this book points to a cohesiveness in Spanish linguistics that lies in the integration of up-to-date empirically-based linguistic research with current theoretical assumptions on the nature of syntax and semantics.
The Syntax And Semantics Of Korean Case
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Author : Young-Joo Kim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Syntax And Semantics Of Korean Case written by Young-Joo Kim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Korean language categories.
Investigations Of The Syntax Semantics Pragmatics Interface
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Author : Robert D. Van Valin
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Investigations Of The Syntax Semantics Pragmatics Interface written by Robert D. Van Valin 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 2008 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advance the development of the theory, but also contribute to the broader theoretical discussion. In particular, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena such as transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese, and an unusual kind of complex sentence in Wari' (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not only illustrate the descriptive and explanatory power of the theory, but also present interesting challenges to other approaches. In addition, there are papers looking at the implications and applications of Role and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic research, parsing and automated text analysis.