Challenges At The Syntax Semantics Pragmatics Interface

Author : Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527569690

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Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by Robert D. Van Valin Jr. Pdf

This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka (Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia), Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.

Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205728

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Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface by Robert D. Van Valin Pdf

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.

Author : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780080552934

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Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Pdf

This book elucidates the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony and proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality. A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized.

Author : Andreas Trotzke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268068

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Rethinking Syntactocentrism by Andreas Trotzke Pdf

The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the generative perspective, as they are formulated in alternative frameworks such as construction grammar, disappear once the consequences of recent minimalist theory are taken seriously. To show this, the book applies recent concepts of minimalist grammar to phenomena like the syntactic flexibility of idioms, the pragmatics of left-periphery-movement, or opacity effects involved in subextraction patterns. The book makes a new contribution to the field, as existing monographs on architectural matters in minimalism neither discuss alternative frameworks at length nor place a premium on pragmatic explanations for syntactic facts. The primary audience of this book are researchers and graduate students interested in a state-of-the-art discussion of grammatical architecture.

Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521811791

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Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Robert D. Van Valin Pdf

This book looks at how syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in different ways across human languages.

Author : Anna Papafragou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585474199

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Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by Anna Papafragou Pdf

This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-study, modality, in order to illustrate how the plasticity of lexically conveyed information can be accounted for without assuming semantic polysemy. The author's approach to the semantics and pragmatics of the English modal verbs is developed within the relevance-theoretic framework of communication.

Author : Edgar Onea
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004217935

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Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by Edgar Onea Pdf

In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel component for question under discussion based discourse pragmatic theories thereby combining such theories with new ideas from inquisitive semantics. He shows how potential questions account for an entire range of grammatical phenomena. These phenomena include the semantics of indefinite determiners, the meaning contribution of nominal appositives, specificational constructions and non restrictive relative clauses. This book delivers a comprehensive and empirically rich investigation into the role of questions in natural language interpretation. Drawing on data from German, English, Hungarian and Russian, Edgar Onea's study significantly broadens our understanding of conventional sensitivity to questions through formally rigorous analyses of specificational particles, parentheticals and indefinites. The Potential Questions framework offers a new and exciting perspective on utterance meanings as not just addressing, but also raising questions, with important consequences for integrated analyses of discourse structure and discourse relations. This book is essential reading for anybody interested in the semantics-pragmatics interface. Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University

Author : Ken Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780857249098

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Making Semantics Pragmatic by Ken Turner Pdf

A collection of invited papers that intends to explore the nature of the semantics/pragmatics interface by examining the extent to which the analysis of certain expressions or constructions can be pragmaticised. It contains papers that address the topic of 'making pragmatics semantic'.

Author : Klaus von Heusinger,Ken Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080462608

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Where Semantics meets Pragmatics by Klaus von Heusinger,Ken Turner Pdf

The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics and contributors ensures that each chapter integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, that each finds an adequate division of theoretical labour and that each attempts to design and corroborate an elegant account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. Importantly, each paper in the volume focuses on linguistic detail, not merely abstract discussions of a theoretical nature. Thus each paper makes extensive reference to the semantic and pragmatic facts of English and also other languages. This reference gives each of the proposed analyses a more adequate empirical edge and a sharper theoretical focus. This book is a must for all scholars and students interested in the new and vibrant discipline of semantics-pragmatics and to anyone who is fascinated by the prospect of working beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of linguistics and the philosophy of language. The chapters in this volume originate from a workshop at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, held at Michigan State University.

Author : Lutz Marten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199250642

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At the Syntax-pragmatics Interface by Lutz Marten Pdf

This book explores the interaction of grammar and context in human communication. Lutz Marten focuses on verbs and verb phrases: he examines the relationship between language rules and linguistic behaviour, seeking to distinguish between language-specific syntactic knowledge and the generalreasoning people need to understand and to make themselves understood. He considers how the component elements of linguistic theory explain what appear to be simple utterances but whose structure is hard to analyse - how, for example, 'Fran is baking Mary a cake in the oven' is different from 'Franis baking Mary a cake in the kitchen'.The author's account of the interactions of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics is based on extensive observation among contrasting cultures and a variety of languages. He makes important contributions to understanding in all three areas. His book will appeal to linguistic theoreticians of allpersuasions.

Author : Stavros Assimakopoulos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501505089

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Pragmatics at its Interfaces by Stavros Assimakopoulos Pdf

All of the papers included in this volume offer some novel and/or updated perspective on issues of central importance in pragmatics, suggesting original ways in which research in the particular areas they adhere to could advance. Apart from the obvious aim of motivating further discussion on the topics it touches on, a central objective of this volume is to underline that research in pragmatics can and does substantially inform research in numerous other fields of enquiry, namely philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and conversation analysis, revealing in this way the truly interdisciplinary nature of pragmatics theorizing. In this respect, and given that most of the contributions in this volume are from leading scholars in their respective fields, it is clearly expected that the ideas put forth in this volume will have a profound and long-lasting impact for future research in the area.

Author : Enikő Németh T.,Károly Bibok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110240269

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The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface by Enikő Németh T.,Károly Bibok Pdf

Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, and empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology and intercultural communication has directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination, as well as revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. The series welcomes proposals that reflect this endeavour and exploration within the discipline and neighboring fields such as language philosophy, communication, information science, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and cognitive science. MSP will provide a forum for authors who represent different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and intercultural paradigms, and have important and intriguing ideas and research findings to share with scholars who are interested in linguistics in general and pragmatics in particular.

Author : Carlo Penco,Filippo Domaneschi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1575866692

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What is Said and what is Not by Carlo Penco,Filippo Domaneschi Pdf

Author : Ilse Depraetere,Raphael Salkie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319322476

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Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line by Ilse Depraetere,Raphael Salkie Pdf

This book explores new territory at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, reassessing a number of linguistic phenomena in the light of recent advances in pragmatic theory. It presents stimulating insights by experts in linguistics and philosophy, including Kent Bach, Philippe de Brabanter, Max Kölbel and François Recanati. The authors begin by reassessing the definition of four theoretical concepts: saturation, free pragmatic enrichment, completion and expansion. They go on to confront (sub)disciplines that have addressed similar issues but that have not necessarily been in close contact, and then turn to questions related to reported speech, modality, indirect requests and prosody. Chapters investigate lexical pragmatics and (cognitive) lexical semantics and other interactions involving experimental pragmatics, construction grammar, clinical linguistics, and the distinction between mental and linguistic content. The authors bridge the gap between different disciplines, subdisciplines and methodologies, supporting cross-fertilization of ideas and indicating the empirical studies that are needed to test current theoretical concepts and push the theory further. Readers will find overviews of the ways in which concepts are defined, empirical data with which they are illustrated and explorations of the theoretical frameworks in which concepts are couched. This exciting exchange of ideas has its origins in the editors’ workshop series on the theme ‘The semantics/pragmatics interface: linguistic, logical and philosophical perspectives’, held at the University of Lille 3 in 2012-13. Scholars of linguistics, logic and philosophy and those interested in the research benefits of crossing disciplines will find this work both accessible and thought-provoking, especially those with an interest in pragmatic theory or semantics.

Author : Ken P. Turner
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080430805

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The Semantics/pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View by Ken P. Turner Pdf

Hardbound. This volume examines explicitly the question of how the semantics and pragmatics of a number of expressions might be responsibly discussed. In the past, the temptation has been for the expressions in question to be discussed either in terms of the semantics, or in terms of the pragmatics, but extremely rarely in terms of both. This book shows how revealing analyses for this interface can be provided for the expressions in question.In specially commissioned chapters from leading authors, the points of view represented include linguistics, logic, computational linguistics, and philosophy.