Indefinite Objects

Author : Luis Lopez
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262517850

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A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis López presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches map structural configurations to semantic interpretations directly; López links configuration to a mode of semantic composition, with the latter yielding the interpretation. The polyvalent behavior of indefinites has long been explored by linguists who have been interested in their syntax, semantics, and case morphology, and López's contribution can be seen as a synthesis of findings from several traditions. He argues, first, that scrambled indefinite objects are composed by means of Function Application preceded by Choice Function while objects in situ are composed by means of Restrict. This difference yields the different interpretive possibilities of indefinite objects. López's more nuanced approach to the syntax-semantics interface turns out to be rich in empirical consequences. Second, he proposes that short scrambling also yields Differential Marking, provided that context conditions are fulfilled, while in situ objects remain unmarked. Thus, López contributes to the extensive literature on Differential Object Marking by showing that syntactic configuration is a crucial factor. López substantiates this approach with data from Spanish, Hindi-Urdu, Persian (Farsi), Kiswahili, Romanian, and German.

Author : Luis Lopez
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262304702

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Indefinite Objects by Luis Lopez Pdf

A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis López presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches map structural configurations to semantic interpretations directly; López links configuration to a mode of semantic composition, with the latter yielding the interpretation. The polyvalent behavior of indefinites has long been explored by linguists who have been interested in their syntax, semantics, and case morphology, and López's contribution can be seen as a synthesis of findings from several traditions. He argues, first, that scrambled indefinite objects are composed by means of Function Application preceded by Choice Function while objects in situ are composed by means of Restrict. This difference yields the different interpretive possibilities of indefinite objects. López's more nuanced approach to the syntax-semantics interface turns out to be rich in empirical consequences. Second, he proposes that short scrambling also yields Differential Marking, provided that context conditions are fulfilled, while in situ objects remain unmarked. Thus, López contributes to the extensive literature on Differential Object Marking by showing that syntactic configuration is a crucial factor. López substantiates this approach with data from Spanish, Hindi-Urdu, Persian (Farsi), Kiswahili, Romanian, and German.

Author : Ning Yang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mandarin dialects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122579605

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The Indefinite Object in Mandarin Chinese by Ning Yang Pdf

Author : Hendrik Boeschoten,Lars Johanson
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Languages in contact
ISBN : 3447052120

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Turkic Languages in Contact by Hendrik Boeschoten,Lars Johanson Pdf

The volume contains contributions on contact-induced language change in situations in which one of the languages is a Turkic one. Most papers deal with cases of long-standing language contact. The geographic areas covered include the Balkans (Macedonian Turkish, Gagauz), Western Europe (Turkish-German, Turkish-Dutch contacts), Central Europe (Karaim), Turkey (Turkish-Kurdish, Turkish-Greek contacts, Old Ottoman Turkish), Iran (Turkic-Iranian contacts) and Siberia (Yakut-Tungusic contacts). The contributions focus on various phenomena of code interaction and on various types of structural changes in different contact settings. Several authors employ the Code Copying Model, which is presented in some detail in one of the articles.

Author : Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198844303

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Rethinking Verb Second by Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe Pdf

This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.

Author : Akifumi Makinouchi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814554589

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Database Systems For Advanced Applications '91 - Proceedings Of The 2nd International Symposium On Database Systems For Advanced Applications by Akifumi Makinouchi Pdf

This volume contains 64 papers from contributors around the world on a wide range of topics in database systems research. Of special mention are the papers describing the practical experiences of developing and implementing some of the many useful database systems on the market. Readers should find useful new ideas from the proceedings of this international symposium.

Author : Monica Alexandrina Irimia,Alexandru Mardale
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249722

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Differential Object Marking in Romance by Monica Alexandrina Irimia,Alexandru Mardale Pdf

Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and theoretical level. Many questions are still being raised regarding which precise morpho-syntactic strategies count as differential object marking, whether the data can be unified, and, subsequently, how they are to be unified formally and theoretically. Additionally, a thorough investigation of this phenomenon is still needed for many Romance languages and especially at the micro-variation level. This volume brings together original papers addressing various aspects of differential object marking in Romance languages, focusing on micro-variation, from both a descriptive and formal perspective, touching on diachrony, language contact, synchrony, and using a large set of methodologies.

Author : H. Fujita,M. Mejri
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607502067

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New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques by H. Fujita,M. Mejri Pdf

Software is the essential enabler for the new economy and science. It creates new markets and new directions for a more reliable, flexible, and robust society. It empowers the exploration of our world in ever more depth. However, software often falls short behind our expectations. Current software methodologies, tools, and techniques remain expensive and not yet reliable for a highly changeable and evolutionary market. Many approaches have been proven only as case-by-case oriented methods. This book presents a number of new trends and theories in the direction in which we believe software science and engineering may develop to transform the role of software and science in tomorrow’s information society. This publication is an attempt to capture the essence of a new state of art in software science and its supporting technology. Is also aims at identifying the challenges such a technology has to master.

Author : Elaine J. Francis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192654328

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Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory by Elaine J. Francis Pdf

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. Acceptability judgments constitute the primary source of data on which such theories have been built, despite being susceptible to various extra-grammatical factors. Through a review of experimental and corpus-based research on a variety of syntactic phenomena and an in-depth examination of two case studies, Elaine J. Francis argues for two main positions. The first is that converging evidence from online comprehension tasks, elicited production tasks, and corpora of naturally-occurring discourse can help to determine the sources of variation in acceptability judgments and to narrow down the range of plausible theoretical interpretations. The second is that the interpretation of judgment data depends crucially on the theoretical commitments and assumptions made, especially with respect to the nature of the syntax-semantics interface and the choice of either a categorical or a gradient notion of grammaticality. The theoretical frameworks considered in this book include derivational theories (e.g. Minimalism, Principles and Parameters), constraint-based theories (e.g. Sign-based Construction Grammar, Simpler Syntax), competition-based theories (e.g. Stochastic Optimality Theory, Decathlon Model), and usage-based approaches. The volume shows that while acceptability judgment data are typically compatible with the assumptions of various theoretical frameworks, some gradient phenomena are best captured within frameworks that permit soft constraints-non-categorical grammatical constraints that encode the conventional preferences of language users.

Author : Yasir Suleiman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 0700703071

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Arabic Sociolinguistics by Yasir Suleiman Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alda Mari,Claire Beyssade,Fabio Del Prete
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191637049

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Genericity by Alda Mari,Claire Beyssade,Fabio Del Prete Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics and pursues the enterprise of the influential Generic Book edited by Gregory Carlson and Jeffry Pelletier, which was published in 1995. Genericity is a key notion in the study of human cognition as it reveals our capacity to organize our perceived reality into classes and to describe regularities. The generic can be expressed at the level of a word or phrase (ie the potato in The Irish economy became dependent upon the potato) or an entire sentence (eg in John smokes a cigar after dinner, the generic aspect is a property of the expression, rather than any single word or phrase within it). This book gathers new work from senior and young researchers to reconsider the notion of genericity, examining the distinct contributions made by the determiner phrase (eg the notions of kind/individual) and the verbal predicate (eg the notions of permanency, disposition, ability, habituality, and plurality). Finally, in connection with the whole sentence, the analytic/synthetic distinction is discussed as well as the notion of normality. The book will appeal to both students and scholars in linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science

Author : Edward John Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015026431455

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The Human Mind by Edward John Hamilton Pdf

Author : Stephen E. Nadeau
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262300865

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The Neural Architecture of Grammar by Stephen E. Nadeau Pdf

A comprehensive, neurally based theory of language function that draws on principles of neuroanatomy, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and parallel distributed processing. Linguists have mapped the topography of language behavior in many languages in intricate detail. To understand how the brain supports language function, however, we must take into account the principles and regularities of neural function. Mechanisms of neurolinguistic function cannot be inferred solely from observations of normal and impaired language. In The Neural Architecture of Grammar, Stephen Nadeau develops a neurologically plausible theory of grammatic function. He brings together principles of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and parallel distributed processing and draws on literature on language function from cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and functional imaging to develop a comprehensive neurally based theory of language function. Nadeau reviews the aphasia literature, including cross-linguistic aphasia research, to test the model's ability to account for the findings of these empirical studies. Nadeau finds that the model readily accounts for a crucial finding in cross-linguistic studies—that the most powerful determinant of patterns of language breakdown in aphasia is the predisorder language spoken by the subject—and that it does so by conceptualizing grammatic function in terms of the statistical regularities of particular languages that are encoded in network connectivity. He shows that the model provides a surprisingly good account for many findings and offers solutions for a number of controversial problems. Moreover, aphasia studies provide the basis for elaborating the model in interesting and important ways.

Author : Serge Sagna
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110632767

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Cross-Categorial Classification by Serge Sagna Pdf

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.

Author : Dawn Bates
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0937073792

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Proceedings of the 10th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics by Dawn Bates Pdf

Forty-one papers from the 1991 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included. The papers deal with diverse topics ranging from the traditional linguistic fields of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to the rapidly developing areas of cognitive and discourse linguistics.