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Author : Michael Lumsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 0415053005
Author : Gary L. Milsark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317931577
In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence of the unstressed, non-deictic, ‘existential’ there. Thus the term will be used as a characterisation of a class of syntactic objects, not as a semantic description. With ES sentences including formations such as ‘There were several people talking’ and ‘There ensued a riot’, perhaps nowhere else do we find so clearly displayed the complexity and subtlety of the syntactic and semantic interactions which determine the nature of human language.
Author : Michael Lumsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933717
What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.
Author : Mira Ariel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933830
Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing procedures. Mira Ariel defines referring expressions as markers signalling the degree of Accessibility in memory of the antecedent. The notion of Accessibility is explicitly defined, the crucial factors being the Salience of the antecedent, and the Unity between the antecedent and the anaphor. This analysis yields an astonishing array of new results. The precise distribution of referring expressions in actual discourse is directly predicted. Several universals of anaphoric relations are stated. Thus, although not all languages necessarily have the same markers, and nor do they assign them precisely the same function, Ariel shows that they all obey the same Accessibility marking hierarchy. This book will be compulsory reading for anyone with an interest in the semantics and pragmatics of referring expressions, in the interaction of semantics and pragmatics, and more generally in the interaction between peripheral and central cognitive systems.
Author : Johan Van Der Auwera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933465
This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers. In the spirit of pluralism, there is no single paradigm unifying all the papers, rather, the volume reflects elements of the Extended Standard Theory, Generative Semantics, Montague Grammar, (Gricean) Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory.
Author : Michael Hannay
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111334318
Author : Violeta Kalėdaitė
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : IND:30000087939744
Existential sentences in the world's languages tend to develop specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical properties. The present work offers a contrastive functional analysis of these constructions in two typologically unrelated languages, English and Lithuanian. The study focuses on the relationship between the syntactic structure of different existential sentence types and their meaning; it also explores the semantic and pragmatic parameters relevant to the structural differences within a single language and across the two compared languages. Most importantly, a new definition of the existential sentence, which takes into account both semantic and syntactic criteria, is proposed for Lithuanian. The findings are drawn on the basis of the corpus and highlight conspicuous differences in the linguistic representations of the construction in the two languages. With respect to Lithuanian, communicative word order variations, language-specific structures (the BKI and the impersonal passive), and a wider use of lexical verbs present an area of special interest. Contents: The English existential: definition and classification -- General characteristics: structural patterns -- Semantic types -- Word order -- The interpretation of there -- Verbs in the construction -- The definiteness restriction -- Lithuanian existentials: the semantics of the basic sentence patterns -- Types of 'be' existentials -- Communicative types of existential sentences -- Semantic classes of acceptable lexical verbs -- Definite and indefinite subject NPs -- Language-specific existential structures.
Author : Jack Hoeksema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933748
This book presents an account of certain problems of morphological analysis that occurs within a theoretical framework that derives its inspiration from recent studies of the lexicon in generative grammar. The starting point is the controversy about the proper analysis of synthetic compounds. Are they really compounds, or phrasal derivations, or do they constitute a type of word formation of their own?
Author : Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 0415717027
RLE: Linguistics Mini-set B has brought together a collection of essential Grammar titles, ranging from Basic Word Order to Existential Sentences, from The Pragmatics of Style to The Semantics of Determiners. These books, some long out of print, form a classic collection by some of the world's leading linguists.
Author : Adriana Belletti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000930252
This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti published over the last ten years or so, offering readers a useful tool to see the mutual enrichment between linguistic theory and experimental studies on (modes of) language acquisition through her work. The volume explores domains of theoretical morphosyntax in the generative tradition and theoretically guided studies on language acquisition. An introduction specific to this volume contextualizes these contributions within ongoing developments in the field. Part I presents studies inspired by the illuminating interchange between linguistic theory and experimentation in the domain of language acquisition, leading to the formulation of explicit research questions tested experimentally and guiding in the proper interpretation of the results. Part II offers refined, detailed theoretical analyses of domains in which peripheral positions in the clause structures are crucially involved to express discourse contents, in sometimes not standard ways during development. Demonstrating how refined linguistic analyses play a crucial role in interpretating the peculiar shape of developmental data, this book will be of interest to scholars in syntax, language acquisition, and theoretical linguistics.
Author : Balder D. ten Cate,Henk W. Zeevat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783540751441
Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book represents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2005, held in Batumi, Georgia. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous presentations at the symposium. The papers present current research in all aspects of linguistics, logic and computation.
Author : Eric J. Reuland,Alice G. B. ter Meulen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262181266
The Representation of(In)definiteness collects the most important current research, reflecting a wide range of approaches, on a central theoretical issue in linguistics: characterizing the distinction between definite and indefinite expressions. The authors of these 11 original essays, which draw on current work in theoretical syntax and semantics, were charged by the editors to take more than usual heed of alternative analyses offered by other theories, thereby promoting cross fertilization of syntactic and semantic ideas, concepts, and argumentation. The project as a whole is grounded in the belief that explicit comparison of seemingly incompatible approaches is essential to improve our understanding of the nature and structure of natural language. Eric J. Reuland and Alice ter Meulen are Professors of Linguistics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the University of Washington respectively. The Representation of (In)definiteness is fourteenth in the series Current Studies in Linguistics, edited by Samuel Jay Keyser.
Author : Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss,Yasuhiro Fujinawa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260871
Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual exclusion plays the major role, i.e. the absence of any common grounds and of any anaphorism and background. In the foreground are sentences with subject inversion, subject suppression and detopicalization. These and only these are suitable for text beginnings, jokes, stage advertisements and solipsistic exclamatives, thus speech acts without communicative goals – free expressives in the true sense of the word. The contributions in this volume not only guide the reader through the history of philosophical logic and distributions of impersonals in contrast to Kantian categorical sentences, but also the correspondences in Japanese and Chinese which, in contrast to German and English, sport specific morphological markers for thetics as opposed to categoricals.
Author : M. Höglund,P. Rickman,J. Rudanko,J. Havu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137450067
This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading.
Author : R. Szekely
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137483294
This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject–predicate sentences, and that this fundamental difference explains the construction's unusual grammatical and discourse properties.