Epithets At The Syntax Semantics Interface

Author : Pritty Patel-Grosz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443883887

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Epithets at the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Pritty Patel-Grosz Pdf

This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic theoretical investigations on epithets. Epithets (such as “the bastard”) are anaphoric expressions which take the shape of a definite description, contain an evaluative component, and are typically unstressed. This monograph shows that, in order to understand the perplexing nature of epithets, one must consider what kinds of behavior they exhibit in different components of the language faculty. In this vein, the text adopts a broad approach, analysing epithets from the perspective of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. The empirical focus of this monograph is on epithets in embedded clauses. It unearths new empirical findings and shows that the acceptability of epithets is affected by a variety of influences, including syntactic factors, such as whether the epithet is in the subject position of an embedded clause, or its object position. Semantic-pragmatic restrictions further navigate the nature of epithets, such as whether they are intended to refer to an attitude holder whose beliefs or other attitudes embed the clause that contains them. Based on these findings, the book argues that epithets are a type of pronoun, subject to interface restrictions concerning the semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports. The insights in this monograph raise new questions concerning the division of labour of the language faculty with respect to the processes and mechanisms involved in Binding Theory.

Author : Pritty Patel-Grosz,Patrick Georg Grosz,Sarah Zobel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319567068

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Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Pritty Patel-Grosz,Patrick Georg Grosz,Sarah Zobel Pdf

This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a window into the nature of pronouns. Pronouns in such environments not only exhibit familiar distinctions such as that between bound and referential pronouns; if they refer to the attitude holder, they also participate in a broader range of phenomena, e.g., distinguishing between a de se reading (involving a conscious self-directed belief) and a de re reading (involving an accidental belief about oneself). Topics covered include: the semantics of attitude reports that contain pronominal elements, the semantics of pronominal features and their connection to indexicality, new insights in the connection of pronominal typology and logophoricity or anti-logophoricity, and finally, the localization of embedded pronouns within a bigger picture involving the nature of perspective and the analysis of quasi-pronominal phenomena such as sequence of tense.

Author : Jens Fleischhauer,Anja Latrouite,Rainer Osswald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Marinela Burada,Oana Tatu,Raluca Sinu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527532571

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Language and Communication in the Digital Age by Marinela Burada,Oana Tatu,Raluca Sinu Pdf

The digital age has exercised considerable influence not only on language use but also on research and teaching in this field. The present volume showcases some aspects of language-related investigation that reflect the interests, experiences, and challenges of theorists, practitioners, and language instructors today. Drawing on the linguistic corpus, parallel texts in different languages and a variety of approaches and methodologies, the book features three main lines of inquiry: L1 syntactic structure, L1-L2 contact and transfer, and L2 pedagogy. The use of case-studies and authentic data makes Language and Communication in the Digital Age a valuable source of insights into some linguistic peculiarities of Romanian and English, and highlights new research avenues for specialists in language and communication.

Author : Łukasz Jędrzejowski,Ulrike Demske-Neumann
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110518473

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Infinitives at the Syntax-semantics Interface by Łukasz Jędrzejowski,Ulrike Demske-Neumann Pdf

The major aim of this volume is to investigate infinitival structures from a diachronic point of view and, simultaneously, to embed the diachronic findings into the ongoing theoretical discussion on non-finite clauses in general. All contributions s

Author : Edgar Onea
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Luis Eguren,Olga Fernández Soriano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027233756

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Coreference, Modality, and Focus by Luis Eguren,Olga Fernández Soriano Pdf

This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and objects; on obviation and Control structures; on specificity and Weak Crossover effects; and on reconstruction without movement, as well as papers that address the scopal interactions between tense/aspect and modals; the syntactic and semantic properties of different types of left-periphery operators; and the role focus plays in elliptical constructions.

Author : Jacee Cho,Michael Iverson,Tiffany Judy,Tania Leal,Elena Shimanskaya
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263643

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Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition by Jacee Cho,Michael Iverson,Tiffany Judy,Tania Leal,Elena Shimanskaya Pdf

This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition, such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2016), the Scalpel Model (Slabakova, 2017), and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) to name a few. The studies explore a variety of linguistic properties (e.g., functional morphology, linguistic properties at the syntax-discourse interface) by focusing on distinct populations (L2 acquisition, L3/LN acquisition, Heritage Speakers), while also considering the links between experimental linguistic research, generative linguistics, and, in some cases, language pedagogy. Dedicated to Roumyana Slabakova, each chapter can be directly linked to her work in terms of the empirical testing of extant hypotheses, the formulation of new models and ideas, and her efforts to advance the dialogue between different disciplines and frameworks. Overall, the contributions in the volume bear evidence of Slabakova’s enduring influence in the field as a collaborator, teacher, and researcher.

Author : Gillian Ramchand,Charles Reiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191568947

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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces by Gillian Ramchand,Charles Reiss Pdf

This state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. It examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal about the operations of language within the mind, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication. Leading international scholars present cutting-edge accounts of developments in the interfaces between phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. They bring to bear a rich variety of methods and theoretical perspectives, focus on a broad array of issues and problems, and illustrate their arguments from a wide range of the world's languages. After the editors' introduction to its structure, scope, and content, the book is divided into four parts. The first, Sound, is concerned with the interfaces between phonetics and phonology, phonology and morphology, and phonology and syntax. Part II, Structure, considers the interactions of syntax with morphology, semantics, and the lexicon, and explores the status of the word and its representional status in the mind. Part III, Meaning, revisits the syntax-semantics interface from the perspective of compositionality, and looks at issues concerned with intonation, discourse, and context. The authors in the final part of the book, General Architectural Concerns, examine work on Universal Grammar, the overall model of language, and linguistic and associated theories of language and cognition. All scholars and advanced students of language will value this book, whether they are in linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, computational science, or informatics.

Author : Susan Rothstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401006903

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Predicates and Their Subjects by Susan Rothstein Pdf

Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. The author shows that this predication relation cannot be reduced to a thematic relation or a projection of argument structure, but must be a purely syntactic constraint. Chapters in the book show how the syntactic predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication relation explains constraints on DP-raising and on the distribution of pleonastics in English. The second half of the book extends the theory of predication to cover copular constructions; it includes an account of the structure of small clauses in Hebrew, of the use of `be' in predicative and identity sentences in English, and concludes with a study of the meaning of the verb `be'.

Author : Louise McNally,Christopher Kennedy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191526367

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Adjectives and Adverbs by Louise McNally,Christopher Kennedy Pdf

In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the relationship between meaning and the positions of adjectives and adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are to provide a comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs, to highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal the importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and compositional semantics. The editors open the book with an overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs.

Author : Ash Asudeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023559102

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Resumption as Resource Management by Ash Asudeh Pdf

Author : Kate Scott,Billy Clark,Robyn Carston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108418638

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Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation by Kate Scott,Billy Clark,Robyn Carston Pdf

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079657287

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alain Rouveret
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286987

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Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces by Alain Rouveret Pdf

This book brings together contributions which address a wide range of issues regarding resumption, gathering evidence from a great variety of languages including Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, French, Vata, Hebrew, Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic. The topics covered include the interpretive properties of resumptive pronouns and epithets, the featural make-up of resumptive pronouns, as well as the syntactic diversity of resumptive constructions and the nature of A-resumption. The introduction offers a critical survey of early syntactic accounts and recent semantic advancements. One contribution presents the results of experimental research providing a new perspective on the last resort status of resumption. Two seminal papers on resumption, Doron (1982) and McCloskey (1990), have also been included. This volume, which deals with a phenomenon that has given rise to intriguing claims concerning the structure and interpretation of pronouns, will be of great interest to both semanticists and syntacticians, whichever framework they favor.