A Presuppositional Analysis Of Specific Indefinites

Author : Jae-Il Yeom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317776543

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A Presuppositional Analysis of Specific Indefinites by Jae-Il Yeom Pdf

First published in 1998. In this book the author presents the view that although many linguists have been interested in specific indefinites, their theories are not quite satisfactory in that they have only tried to explore some aspects of specific indefinites. This paper assumes a standard notion of specificity, i.e., the notion of someone having-in-mind an individual or a relation. Under this assumption, there is an attempt to review previous studies on specific indefinites, and propose a new theory of specificity which I believe can capture all aspects which the previous studies have explored. This leads us to a new information theory which is partially representational and partially denotational., and which is useful for dealing with conversational aspects, like the distinction between the speaker and the audience.

Author : Jae-Il Yeom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317776536

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A Presuppositional Analysis of Specific Indefinites by Jae-Il Yeom Pdf

First published in 1998. In this book the author presents the view that although many linguists have been interested in specific indefinites, their theories are not quite satisfactory in that they have only tried to explore some aspects of specific indefinites. This paper assumes a standard notion of specificity, i.e., the notion of someone having-in-mind an individual or a relation. Under this assumption, there is an attempt to review previous studies on specific indefinites, and propose a new theory of specificity which I believe can capture all aspects which the previous studies have explored. This leads us to a new information theory which is partially representational and partially denotational., and which is useful for dealing with conversational aspects, like the distinction between the speaker and the audience.

Author : John Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317419570

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Definiteness and Indefiniteness by John Hawkins Pdf

First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of definite and indefinite reference, on the basis of which, many co-occurance restrictions between articles and non-modifiers are explained. At the general theoretical level, this book looks at the role of semantics in the prediction of all and only the grammatical sentences of a language. A generalisation is proposed uniting semantic oppositions underlying ungrammaticality with syntactic oppositions between conditions of application on transformational generative rules. A procedure is suggested for distinguishing semantic from syntactic causes of ungrammaticality. At a more particular level, the book explores the nature of reference. It examines an important selection of subjects such as the contrast between definiteness and indefiniteness, the relationship between definite and demonstrative reference, and the relationship between pragmatic and logical aspects of determining meaning.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112755413

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin,Claire Beyssade
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789400730021

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Redefining Indefinites by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin,Claire Beyssade Pdf

This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, other Romance languages and English. Central to the proposed analyses is a distinction between two types of entities, individualized entities and amounts. Weak indefinites are analyzed as existential generalized quantifiers over amounts and strong indefinites as either Skolem terms or generalized quantifiers over individualized entities. The up-to-date review of the literature and the new falsifiable proposals contained in this book will be of particular interest to linguistics students and scholars interested in the cross-linguistic semantics of indefinites.

Author : Rainer Bauerle,Uwe Reyle,Thomas Zimmermann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004253162

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Presuppositions and Discourse: Essays Offered to Hans Kamp by Rainer Bauerle,Uwe Reyle,Thomas Zimmermann Pdf

So it is hardly a decade ago that presupposition theory has been cast into a promising theoretical form. And as this provided an inspiring starting point for further research, we thought that, at the turn of the century, the time had come to discuss what the new theory had taught us and which promising further perspectives had been opened up. This was the motivation behind the conference on "Presupposition" which we convened in Stuttgart in October 2000, and which gave rise to the papers collected in this volume. The conference was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which we gratefully acknowledge. Undoubtedly, presupposition theory is a major chapter in the success story of dynamic semantics. A conference on the topic thus also seemed to us the ideal birthday present for one of the founding fathers of dynamic semantics, our teacher and friend Hans Kamp, on his 60th birthday. To him we dedicate the volume as an expression of our gratitude for his untiring effort to make us understand.

Author : Jacqueline Guéron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191059827

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Sentence and Discourse by Jacqueline Guéron Pdf

This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules, the coherence of a discourse is instead dependent on the relations between the sentences it contains. In this volume, leading syntacticians, semanticists, and philosophers examine the nature of these relations, where they come from, and how they apply. Chapters in Part I address points of sentence grammar in different languages, including mood and tense in Spanish, definite determiners in French and Bulgarian, and the influence of aktionsart on the acquisition of tense by English, French, and Chinese children. Part II looks at modes of discourse, showing for example how discourse relations create implicatures and how Indirect Discourse differs from Free Indirect Discourse. The studies conclude that the relations between sentences that make a discourse coherent are already encoded in sentence grammar and that, once established, these relations influence the meaning of individual sentences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Korean language
ISBN : UOM:39015053846252

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語學硏究 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thórhallur Eythórsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Germanic languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025357828

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Verbal Syntax in the Early Germanic Languages by Thórhallur Eythórsson Pdf

Author : Francis Corblin,Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin,Jean-Marie Marandin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : NWU:35556030233472

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Empirical issues in formal syntax and semantics by Francis Corblin,Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin,Jean-Marie Marandin Pdf

Author : Fred Landman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470759301

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Indefinites and the Type of Sets by Fred Landman Pdf

Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories. Explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. Written accessibly by one of the world’s most prominent formal semanticists. Useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1778 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755818

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079723287

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martine Coene,Liliane Tasmowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123161262

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On space and time in language by Martine Coene,Liliane Tasmowski Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Dissertation abstracts
ISBN : UOM:39015086908194

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American Doctoral Dissertations by Anonim Pdf