Degree Gradation Of Verbs

Author : Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110720273

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Degree Gradation of Verbs by Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer Pdf

Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like 'The boy loves his mother very much' and 'The boy has grown a lot' reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable too. Verb gradation has received considerably less attention in the literature than gradation of adjectives. The aim of the current volume is to explore the notion of verb gradation in more detail. The book presents a semantic as well as a syntactic analysis of verb gradation and combines three case studies with a general perspective on the phenomenon. Issues addressed in the volume cover, among others, the notion of scalarity in the verbal domain, the interaction of verb gradation with grammatical as well as lexical aspect and verb gradation as a subcompositional phenomenon. These topics are investigated from a cross-linguistic perspective. The languages of investigation include, among others, German, Russian and French.

Author : Jens Fleischhauer
Publisher : Düsseldorf University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3957580250

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Degree Gradation of Verbs by Jens Fleischhauer Pdf

Author : Boban Arsenijević,Berit Gehrke,Rafael Marín
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400759831

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Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates by Boban Arsenijević,Berit Gehrke,Rafael Marín Pdf

This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure. The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to ‘event structure’ frameworks and mereological models for the eventuality domain, have sidelined research on specific sets of entailments that support a typology of event predicates. Addressing this imbalance in the literature, the work also presents evidence indicating a more complex role for scalar structures than currently assumed. It will enrich the work of semanticists, psycholinguists, and syntacticians with a decompositional approach to verb phrase structure.

Author : Carl Palmgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:465900517

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English Gradation-nouns in Their Relation to Strong Verbs by Carl Palmgren Pdf

Author : Jens Fleischhauer,Anja Latrouite,Rainer Osswald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110720297

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Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Jens Fleischhauer,Anja Latrouite,Rainer Osswald Pdf

The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

Author : Alexandra Silva,Sam Staton,Peter Sutton,Carla Umbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783662595657

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Language, Logic, and Computation by Alexandra Silva,Sam Staton,Peter Sutton,Carla Umbach Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, TbiLLC 2017, held in Lagodekhi, Georgia, in September 2017. The volume contains 17 full revised papers presented at the conference from 22 submissions. The aim of this conference series is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields in Natural language syntax, Linguistic typology, Language evolution, Logics for artificial intelligence and much more.

Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110877786

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Degree Words by Dwight Bolinger Pdf

Author : Markus Werning,Wolfram Hinzen,Edouard Machery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191633294

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The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality by Markus Werning,Wolfram Hinzen,Edouard Machery Pdf

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts. Understanding how compositionality works is a central element of syntactic and semantic analysis and a challenge for models of cognition. It is a key concept in linguistics and philosophy and in the cognitive sciences more generally, and is without question one of the most exciting fields in the study of language and mind. The authors of this book report critically on lines of research in different disciplines, revealing the connections between them and highlighting current problems and opportunities. The force and justification of compositionality have long been contentious. First proposed by Frege as the notion that the meaning of an expression is generally determined by the meaning and syntax of its components, it has since been deployed as a constraint on the relation between theories of syntax and semantics, as a means of analysis, and more recently as underlying the structures of representational systems, such as computer programs and neural architectures. The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality explores these and many other dimensions of this challenging field. It will appeal to researchers and advanced students in linguistics and philosophy and to everyone concerned with the study of language and cognition including those working in neuroscience, computational science, and bio-informatics.

Author : Prasetyo Adi Wisnu Wibowo ,Suwardi Endraswara,Teguh Supriyanto,Kundharu Saddhono,Pardi
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781631902550

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BASA 2019 by Prasetyo Adi Wisnu Wibowo ,Suwardi Endraswara,Teguh Supriyanto,Kundharu Saddhono,Pardi Pdf

This proceeding contains selected papers of The International Seminar On Recent Language, Literature, And Local Culture Studies “Kajian Mutakhir Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Budaya Daerah (BASA)” held on 20-21 September 2019 in Solo, Indonesia. The conference which was organized by Sastra Daerah, Faculty of Cultural Sciences Universitas Sebelas Maret and Culture Studies Postgraduate Program of Universitas Sebelas Maret. The conference accommodates topics for linguistics in general including issues in language, literature, local cultural studies, philology, folklore, oral literature, history, art, education, etc. Selecting and reviewing process for the The International Seminar On Recent Language, Literature, And Local Culture Studies “Kajian Mutakhir Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Daerah” was very challenging in that it needs a goodwill of those who were involved in such a process. More than ten experts were invited in reviewing, giving suggestions for revision and at last selecting the papers. On that account, we would like to forward our appreciation and our gratefulness to such invited experts for having done the process. The committee received more than 180 papers from the participants and based on the results of the review, only 141 papers were declared fit to be presented at the seminar and subsequently published in the proceedings of BASA#3-2019 Papers in the proceeding are expected to give academic benefits, especially in broadening the horizon of our understanding in language, literature, and local culture studies. We realize that what we are presenting for the publication is till far for being perfect. Constructive criticism is very much welcome for improvement. Finally, the committees thank for the participation and congratulate for the publication of the papers in the proceedings of BASA#3-2019. The committees also thank all those who have supported and actively participated for the success of this event. Hopefully these Proceedings can be used as references in developing technology and improving learning activities in the fields of education, social, arts and humanities.

Author : Alexander Gelbukh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031243400

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing by Alexander Gelbukh Pdf

The two-volume set LNCS 13451 and 13452 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2019 conference which took place in La Rochelle, France, April 2019. The total of 95 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 335 submissions. The book also contains 3 invited papers. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: General, Information extraction, Information retrieval, Language modeling, Lexical resources, Machine translation, Morphology, sintax, parsing, Name entity recognition, Semantics and text similarity, Sentiment analysis, Speech processing, Text categorization, Text generation, and Text mining.

Author : Sebastian Löbner,Thomas Gamerschlag,Tobias Kalenscher,Markus Schrenk,Henk Zeevat
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030502003

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Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology by Sebastian Löbner,Thomas Gamerschlag,Tobias Kalenscher,Markus Schrenk,Henk Zeevat Pdf

This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised in the text is whether requisite knowledge structures can be adequately modeled by means of a uniform representational format, and if so, what exactly is its nature. Frames are a key topic covered which have had a strong impact on the exploration of knowledge representations in artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics; cascades are a novel development in frame theory. Other key subject areas explored are: concepts and categorization, the experimental investigation of mental representation, as well as cognitive analysis in semantics. This book is of interest to students, researchers, and professionals working on cognition in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

Author : Elena Castroviejo,Louise McNally,Galit Weidman Sassoon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319777917

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The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure by Elena Castroviejo,Louise McNally,Galit Weidman Sassoon Pdf

This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness. It presents support for and challenges to current formal analyses of these phenomena in view of experimentally collected data, highlighting the ways semantic and pragmatic theory can benefit from experimental methodologies. The papers in the volume contribute to an explicit and detailed account of the use, representation, and online processing of gradable and vague expressions using various kinds of controlled speaker judgment tasks, eye tracking, and ERP. The aim is to strengthen the foundations of experimental semantics and promote interaction between linguists, psycholinguists, psychologists, and philosophers who are interested in the semantics of natural language. Using data representing different languages and a variety of nominal and adjectival constructions, including degree modification and comparatives, the contributions address scale-based classifications of gradable predicates, such as the absolute vs. relative distinction; the nature of the standards for applicability of gradable expressions and the ways in which standards are determined; the nature of dimensions and multidimensionality in the meaning of scalar expressions; and the role of embodiment, subjectivity, and sociolinguistic considerations in the use and understanding of gradable expressions.

Author : D.N.S. Bhat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298805

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The Adjectival Category by D.N.S. Bhat Pdf

This monograph sets out (i) to establish criteria for differentiating adjectives from other word-classes for languages in which they form a distinct category, and (ii) to establish criteria for determining their (non-)identity with words from other categories for languages in which they do not. As languages show various gradations in the extent to which adjectives can be distinguished from other word-classes, the author discusses idealized language types, thereby providing a model for the analysis of natural languages. The book argues that adjectives do not uniformly show all differentiating characteristics and that these characteristics are semantically relevant and functionally motivated: for instance, when word-classes are used in functions not their own, they manifest characteristics of the categories to which the relevant functions belong. The second part of the book discusses three distinct idealized languages types without a distinct adjectival category in which “property words” remain undifferentiated from (i) nouns, (ii) verbs, and (iii) nouns as well as verbs. These three types are shwon to represent gradations of distinctions between word-classes as they occur in natural languages and to manifest various degrees of the corresponding functional neutralizations. In the final chapter the wider theoretical implications of this work for the study of categories are discussed.

Author : Daniel Lassiter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191005046

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Graded Modality by Daniel Lassiter Pdf

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of expressions, namely modal auxiliaries such as must, might, and ought. Here, Daniel Lassiter argues that we should expand the conversation to include gradable modals such as more likely than, quite possible, and very good. He provides an introduction to qualitative and degree semantics for graded meaning, using the Representational Theory of Measurement to expose the complementarity between these apparently opposed perspectives on gradation. The volume explores and expands the typology of scales among English adjectives and uses the result to shed light on the meanings of a variety of epistemic and deontic modals. It also demonstrates that modality is deeply intertwined with probability and expected value, connecting modal semantics with the cognitive science of uncertainty and choice.

Author : Götz Keydana,Wolfgang Hock,Paul Widmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110641325

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Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European by Götz Keydana,Wolfgang Hock,Paul Widmer Pdf

The ability to compare is fundamental to human cognition. Expressing various types of comparison is thus essential to any language. The present volume presents detailed grammatical descriptions of how comparison and gradation are expressed in ancient Indo-European languages. The detailed chapters devoted to the individual languages go far beyond standard handbook knowledge. Each chapter is structured the same way to facilitate cross-reference and (typological) comparison. The data are presented in a top-down fashion and in a format easily accessible to the linguistic community. The topics covered are similatives, equatives, comparatives, superlatives, elatives, and excessives. Each type of comparison is illustrated with glossed examples of all its attested grammatical realizations. The book is an indispensable tool for typologists, historical linguists, and students of the syntax and morphosyntax of comparison.