Economy And Semantic Interpretation

Author : Danny Fox
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262561212

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Exploring the relevance of principles of optimization to the interface between syntax and semantics. In Economy and Semantic Interpretation, Danny Fox investigates the relevance of principles of optimization (economy) to the interface between syntax and semantics. Supporting the view that grammar is restricted by economy considerations, Fox argues for various economy conditions that constrain the application of covert operations. Among other things, he argues that syntactic operations that do not affect phonology cannot apply unless they affect the semantic interpretation of a sentence. This position has a number of consequences for the architecture of grammar. For example, it suggests that the modularity assumption, according to which a language's syntax must be characterized independently of its semantics, needs to be revised. Another consequence concerns new answers to the question of exactly where in the syntactic derivation the various constraints on interpretation apply. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 35Copublished with the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics series.

Author : Fritz Machlup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015010218843

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Essays on Economic Semantics by Fritz Machlup Pdf

Author : Andrew Simpson,Audrey-Li Yen-hui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134431373

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Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation by Andrew Simpson,Audrey-Li Yen-hui Pdf

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian languages which shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean adds much to our general understanding of the close connections between form and interpretation. This specially commissioned collection will be of interest to linguists of all backgrounds working in the general area of syntax and language change, as well as those with a special interest in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Author : Márta Abrusán
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191664984

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Weak Island Semantics by Márta Abrusán Pdf

This book presents a novel semantic account of weak, or selective, islands. Weak islands are configurations that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Examples of island violations with acceptable counterexamples include '#How much wine haven't you drunk?' (but 'Which girl haven't you introduced to Mary?'), '#How does John regret that he danced at the party?' (but 'Who does John regret that he invited to the party?') or '#How much wine do you know whether you will produce?' (but 'Which glass of wine do you know whether you'll poison?'). For forty years or more, explanations of the unacceptability of these island constructions have been syntactic. Syntactic accounts have also provided some of the key empirical motivation for Chomsky's claim that universal grammar (UG) contains language independent abstract syntactic constraints. But syntactic accounts, however subtle, fail to explain why many weak island violations are made almost acceptable by modals and attitude verbs, as in 'How much wine aren't you allowed to drink?'; 'How fast do you hope Lewis didn't drive?'; or 'How does Romeo regret he was allowed to go to the party?' Dr Abrusán considers which contexts and expressions create - or are sensitive to - weak island violations, and examines the factors that go some way to curing them. She puts forward a semantic analysis to account for the unacceptability of violations of negative, presuppositional, quantificational and wh-islands. She explains why grammaticality violations can be obviated by certain modal expressions, and why and how far the grammaticality judgments of speakers depend on the context of the utterance. The book argues that there is no need to assume abstract syntactic rules in order to derive these facts; rather, they can be made to follow from independent semantic principles. If correct, this work has a fundamental consequence for the field of linguistics in general: it removes some of the most important reasons for postulating abstract syntactic rules as part of UG, and hence weakens the arguments for postulating a module of UG.

Author : Fritz Machlup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000676594

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Economic Semantics by Fritz Machlup Pdf

When the original edition was first published in 1963, Machlip observed ' I hope that the availibility of this collection will dispel semantic and concpetual; fog and allow greather visibility...'. The work is divided into five sections with a new essay in this edition on 'Are the Social Sciences Really Inferior?' There is also a new introduction by Mark Perlman, University Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Author : Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer,Pavol Kačmár
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316511695

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Creativity in Word Formation and Word Interpretation by Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer,Pavol Kačmár Pdf

The pioneering new study presents an interdisciplinary examination of how we use creativity to form and interpret new words.

Author : Kerstin Schwabe,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296917

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The Interfaces by Kerstin Schwabe,Susanne Winkler Pdf

The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these interfaces. As such, they not only make a valuable contribution to generative linguistic research but, more generally, help to deepen our understanding of the relation between form and meaning in natural language. In the book’s introductory chapter, the editors address general issues related to current work on ellipsis and the syntax/semantics, syntax/phonology and syntax/discourse interfaces. The rest of the book is organized into three parts. The first examines PF-deletion accounts of elliptical structures; the second investigates these structures from the perspective of the syntax/semantic interface; and the third explores these from a perspective that concentrates on the relation between semantics and focus and discourse structure. Together the papers collected in this volume offer a convincing demonstration of the value of collaborative research on the ‘interfaces’.

Author : Kathryn Tanner
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451412320

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Economy of Grace by Kathryn Tanner Pdf

Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism? University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a serious and creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and behavior through a theological lens.

Author : Fritz Machlup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000660876

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Economic Semantics by Fritz Machlup Pdf

When the original edition was first published in 1963, Machlip observed ' I hope that the availibility of this collection will dispel semantic and concpetual; fog and allow greather visibility...'. The work is divided into five sections with a new essay in this edition on 'Are the Social Sciences Really Inferior?' There is also a new introduction by Mark Perlman, University Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Author : Chris Cummins,Napoleon Katsos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192509543

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The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics by Chris Cummins,Napoleon Katsos Pdf

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in this volume offer an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning 31 different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. The volume's forward-looking approach also seeks to actively identify questions and methods that could be fruitfully combined in future experimental research. Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

Author : Louis de Saussure,Jacques Moeschler,Genoveva Puskás
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198768

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Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality by Louis de Saussure,Jacques Moeschler,Genoveva Puskás Pdf

It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal level of representation: information about time, aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences; inflexion is quite widely considered as the core of syntactic projections. Because of this very crucial situation and role in the sentence structure, temporal-aspectual and modal information concerns virtually any part of the sentence and this information has scope over the whole characterization of the eventuality denoted by the sentence. This book is an up-to-date milestone for the studies of temporality and language, in particular regarding syntax and semantics, but with incidental hints to pragmatics and theories of human natural language understanding. Through this very tight selection of 15 papers (originally delivered during the 6th Chronos colloquium), tenses, aspect and modality are investigated both at the descriptive and theoretical levels, involving many different Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. The volume sheds light on a wide array of phenomena that remained too little explored until now. These include the following: modal subordination in Japanese, epistemic modals in Dutch and English in Free Indirect Speech contexts, aspectual readings of idioms, adverb-licensing with the German perfect, French imperfective past compared with English progressive past, infinitival perfect in English, Adult Root Infinitives, economy constraints on temporal subordinations, future modality, past interpretation of present tense in embedded clauses, and time without tenses in Mandarin and Navajo. The book is of interest to scholars and advanced students in the fields of linguistics (general linguistics, semantics, syntax) as well as philosophy and logic.

Author : Kristen Syrett,Sudha Arunachalam
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263605

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Semantics in Language Acquisition by Kristen Syrett,Sudha Arunachalam Pdf

This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical content and inferences on language meaning (semantics and pragmatics), the papers in this volume introduce the reader to the variety of ways in which children come to realize that semantic content is encoded in word meaning (for example, in the event semantics of the verbal domain or the scope of logical operators), and at the level of the sentence, which requires the composition of semantic meaning. The authors represent some of the most established and promising researchers in this domain, demonstrating collective expertise in a range of methodologies and topics relevant to the acquisition of semantics. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for students and faculty, and junior and seasoned researchers alike.

Author : Chris Wilder,Hans-Martin Gärtner,Manfred Bierwisch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783050072173

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The Role of Economy Principles in Linguistic Theory by Chris Wilder,Hans-Martin Gärtner,Manfred Bierwisch Pdf

Die Reihe publiziert Originalarbeiten zur Beschreibung und theoretischen Analyse der Struktur natürlicher Sprachen. Schwerpunkt sind die Prinzipien und Regeln der grammatischen und lexikalischen Kenntnis sowohl unter einzelsprachlichen wie unter sprachvergleichenden Gesichtspunkten. Abgedeckt werden alle systematischen Bereiche der Sprachwissenschaft, insbesondere Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik, unter Einbeziehung von Aspekten des Spracherwerbs, des Sprachwandels, der Sprachverwendung und der phonetischen und neuronalen Realisierung.

Author : Martin Everaert,Henk C. Van Riemsdijk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 3285 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405178419

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The Blackwell Companion to Syntax by Martin Everaert,Henk C. Van Riemsdijk Pdf

*** Pre-Order The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, second edition, publishing December 2017. Find out more at www.companiontosyntax.com *** This long-awaited reference work marks the culmination of numerous years of research and international collaboration by the world’s leading syntacticians. There exists no other comparable collection of research that documents the development of syntax in this way. Under the editorial direction of Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, this 5 volume set comprises 70 case studies commissioned specifically for this volume. The 80 contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joe Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, Jim Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others. A unique collection of 70 newly-commissioned case studies, offering access to research completed over the last 40 years. Brings together the world’s leading syntacticians to provide a large and diverse number of case studies in the field. Explores a comprehensive range of syntax topics from an historical perspective. Investigates empirical domains which have been well-documented and which have played a prominent role in theoretical syntax at some stage in the development of generative grammar. Serves as a research tool for not only theoretical linguistics but also the various forms of applied linguistics. Contains an accessible alphabetical structure, with an index integral to each volume featuring keywords and key figures. Each multi-volume set is also accompanied by a CD Rom of the entire Companion. Like the prestigious Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, this multi-volume work, in the new The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Linguistics series, can be relied upon to deliver the quality and expertise with which Blackwell Publishing’s linguistics list is associated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781135896027

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Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement by Anonim Pdf