On The Nominal Nature Of Propositional Arguments

Author : Katrin Axel-Tober,Lutz Gunkel,Jutta M. Hartmann,Anke Holler
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
Page : 266 pages
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Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783967692891

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On the nominal nature of propositional arguments by Katrin Axel-Tober,Lutz Gunkel,Jutta M. Hartmann,Anke Holler Pdf

Die grammatische Kategorie eingebetteter Sätze zählt seit über 50 Jahren zu den zentralen Themen der theoretischen Syntax. Dabei dreht sich die Diskussion speziell um die Frage, ob manche oder vielleicht alle eingebetteten Sätze als Nominalphrasen zu behandeln sind, sei es, weil sie einen (stummen) nominalen Kopf haben (D oder N), oder sei es, weil der Satzeinleiter selbst als nominal zu betrachten ist. Die Beiträge des Sonderhefts nehmen diese Fragestellung erneut auf und explorieren sie unter verschiedenen, syntaktischen wie semantischen Aspekten im Lichte neuerer theoretischer Ansätze. Das Spektrum an Sprachen, die genauer untersucht oder argumentativ für die Zwecke der Analyse herangezogen werden, umfasst neben Deutsch – einschließlich dialektaler Varietäten wie Bairisch und Alemannisch – Englisch, Niederländisch (einschließlich der Brabanter Varietät), Alt- und Neugriechisch, Jula (Niger-Kongo), Schwedisch, Baskisch sowie eine Reihe anderer genetisch und typologisch unterschiedlicher Sprachen. Inhalt: – Katrin Axel-Tober, Lutz Gunkel, Jutta M. Hartmann & Anke Holler: Introduction Part I: Complementation as relativization – Carlos de Cuba: Relatively nouny? – Gisela Zifonun: Sind Komplementsätze nominal? Positionen der Grammatikschreibung Part II: Complement clauses and nominal structure – Richard Faure: (H)óti-clauses from DP to NPhood. The life of a Greek nouny clause – Kalle Müller: On noun-related complementizer clauses – Alassane Kiemtoré: A syntactic account of clausal complementation in Jula Part III: Semantic aspects – Vesela Simeonova: Definitely factive – Jürgen Pafel: (Argument) clauses and definite descriptions – Patrick Brandt: The real semantic value is propositional: German particle verbs and state change Part IV: Aspects based on dependent verb-second – Andreas Blümel & Nobu Goto: Reconsidering the syntax of correlates and propositional arguments – Frank Sode: On the conditional nature of V2-clauses in desire reports of German

Author : Katrin Axel-Tober,Lutz Gunkel,Jutta Hartmann,Anke Holler
Publisher : Unknown
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On the Nominal Nature of Propositional Arguments by Katrin Axel-Tober,Lutz Gunkel,Jutta Hartmann,Anke Holler Pdf

Author : Alain Rouveret
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 554 pages
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Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110769395

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Nonfinite Inquiries by Alain Rouveret Pdf

This study aims at developing a unified perspective on nonfiniteness, encompassing its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. It puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from standard infinitives (gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal structures, Portuguese inflected infinitives, Latin dominant participle constructions) and takes advantage of the most recent developments in syntactic theory. The notions of defectiveness and completeness, the inheritance hypothesis, the labeling requirement, the syntactic definition of lexical categories, once combined together, appear to make accessible tighter and more elegant analyses than previous accounts.

Author : Claudia Maienborn,Angelika Wöllstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 377 pages
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Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110913798

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Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications by Claudia Maienborn,Angelika Wöllstein Pdf

Since entering the stage, Davidsonian event arguments have taken on a central role in linguistic theorizing. Recent years have seen a continuous extension of possible applications for them, not only in semantics but also in syntax. At the same time questions concerning the ontological status of events have received renewed attention. This collection of articles provides new evidence for the virtually ubiquitous presence of event arguments in linguistic structure and sheds new light on their nature. The volume is organized into four sections: Events - states - causation; Event nominals; Events in composition; Measuring events.

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 581 pages
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Release : 1996
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9780195093087

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The Polysynthesis Parameter by Mark C. Baker Pdf

This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology. Baker argues that polysynthesis is more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather, it is a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships that is parallel to but distinct from the system used in languages like English. Having repercussions for many areas of syntax and related aspects of morphology and semantics, this argument results in a comprehensive picture of the grammar of polysynthetic languages. Baker draws on examples from Mohawk and certain languages of the American Southwest, Mesoamerica, Australia, and Siberia.

Author : Richard T. Oehrle,E. Bach,Deirdre Wheeler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 524 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401568784

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Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures by Richard T. Oehrle,E. Bach,Deirdre Wheeler Pdf

For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend of May 31 through June 2, 1985. We wish to record our gratitude to the participants in that conference, as well as to the National Science Foundation (Grant No. BNS-8418916) and the University of Arizona SBS Research Institute for their financial support. The advice we received from Susan Steele on organizational matters proved invaluable and had many felicitous consequences for the success of the con ference. We also would like to thank the staff of the Departments of Linguistics of the University of Arizona and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for their help, as weIl as a number of individuals, including Lin Hall, Kathy Todd, and Jiazhen Hu, Sandra Fulmer, Maria Sandoval, Natsuko Tsujimura, Stuart Davis, Mark Lewis, Robin Schafer, Shi Zhang, Olivia Oehrle-Steele, and Paul Saka. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Martin Scrivener, our editor, for his patience and his encouragement. Vll INTRODUCTION The term 'categorial grammar' was introduced by Bar-Rillel (1964, page 99) as a handy way of grouping together some of his own earlier work (1953) and the work of the Polish logicians and philosophers Lesniewski (1929) and Ajdukiewicz (1935), in contrast to approaches to linguistic analysis based on phrase structure grammars.

Author : Monika Rathert,Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110226546

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The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks by Monika Rathert,Artemis Alexiadou Pdf

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.

Author : Arianna Betti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 325 pages
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Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262029216

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Against Facts by Arianna Betti Pdf

An argument that the major metaphysical theories of facts give us no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world. In this book Arianna Betti argues that we have no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world, at least as they are described by the two major metaphysical theories of facts. She claims that neither of these theories is tenable—neither the theory according to which facts are special structured building blocks of reality nor the theory according to which facts are whatever is named by certain expressions of the form “the fact that such and such.” There is reality, and there are entities in reality that we are able to name, but, Betti contends, among these entities there are no facts. Drawing on metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and linguistics, Betti examines the main arguments in favor of and against facts of the two major sorts, which she distinguishes as compositional and propositional, giving special attention to methodological presuppositions. She criticizes compositional facts (facts as special structured building blocks of reality) and the central argument for them, Armstrong's truthmaker argument. She then criticizes propositional facts (facts as whatever is named in “the fact that” statements) and what she calls the argument from nominal reference, which draws on Quine's criterion of ontological commitment. Betti argues that metaphysicians should stop worrying about facts, and philosophers in general should stop arguing for or against entities on the basis of how we use language.

Author : Katalin É. Kiss,Balázs Surányi,Éva Dékány
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
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Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268853

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Approaches to Hungarian by Katalin É. Kiss,Balázs Surányi,Éva Dékány Pdf

This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications.The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions, sluicing in relative clauses, generic/habitual readings in clauses containing a free choice item, the argument structure of experiencer verbs in Hungarian, and cataphoric propositional pronoun insertion in Hungarian and German. The papers in morphosyntax analyze morphological alienability splits and the manifestation of the Inverse Agreement Constraint in Hungarian. The studies in phonetics and phonology inquire into regressive voicing assimilation in Hungarian and Slovak, and explore the predictions of the Functional Load Hypothesis for stress-marking and the relationship between the phonetic and phonological properties of /a:/ in Hungarian. The volume will appeal not just to scholars working on Hungarian, but to a general audience of theoretical linguists.

Author : V.F. Rickey,Jan J.T. Srzednicki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400960893

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Leśniewski’s Systems by V.F. Rickey,Jan J.T. Srzednicki Pdf

Author : Beth Carol Levin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040170420

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On the Nature of Ergativity by Beth Carol Levin Pdf

Author : Nicholas Asher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401117159

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Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse by Nicholas Asher Pdf

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to `bottom up, compositional' discourse representation theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns to a semantic analysis of eventuality and abstract object denoting nominals in English. The book then substantially revises and extends the dynamic semantic framework of DRT to develop an analysis of anaphoric reference to abstract objects and eventualities that exploits discourse structure and the discourse relations that obtain between elements of the structure. A dynamic, semantically based theory of discourse structure (SDRT) is proposed, along with many illustrative examples. Two further chapters then provide the analysis of anaphoric reference to propositions VP ellipsis. The abstract entity anaphoric antecedents are elements of the discourse structures that SDRT develops. The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract objects. For semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists interested in natural language applications and discourse, philosophical logicians, graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Author : Anne Reboul
Publisher : Springer
Page : 536 pages
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Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319041995

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Mind, Values, and Metaphysics by Anne Reboul Pdf

This book addresses five main topics of metaphysics in its first section: formal objects and truth-makers; tropes; properties and predicates; varieties of relations; and the notion of explanation in metaphysics. The second part of this volume focuses on the history of philosophy with an emphasis on Austrian philosophy: the ideas of Bolzano, Wittgenstein, Locke and Bergson, amongst others, are explored in the papers presented here. This is the first volume in a two-volume set that originates from papers presented to Professor Kevin Mulligan, covering the subjects that he contributed to during his career including ontology, mind and value, history and philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. This volume contains thirty two chapters, written by researchers from across Europe, North America and North Africa. These papers cover topics in metaphysics ranging from Lehrer and Tolliver’s discussion of truth and tropes, to Johansson’s defence of the distinction between thick and thin relations and Persson and Sahlin’s presentation of the difficulties inherent in applying the concept of explanation in metaphysics. Papers on the history of philosophy include a look at Bolzano’s formative years and his conception of mathematics. De Libera examines Brentano’s adverbial theory of judgment and Fisette traces the history of the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th century. Marion contests the trendy pragmatist accounts that lump Wittgenstein and Heidegger together and there are analyses of Locke and Bergson’s work, amongst the many papers presented here. This volume contains three chapters in French and one in Spanish. The second volume of this set looks at ethics, values and emotions, epistemology, perception and consciousness, as well as philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

Author : Nicolas Nicolov,Ruslan Mitkov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283979

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Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing by Nicolas Nicolov,Ruslan Mitkov Pdf

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Second International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’97) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1997. The aim of the conference was to give researchers the opportunity to present new results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) based both on traditional and modern theories and approaches. The conference received substantial interest — 167 submissions from more than 20 countries. The best papers from the proceedings were selected for this volume, in the hope that they reflect the most significant and promising trends (and successful results) in NLP. The contributions have been grouped according to the following topics: tagging, lexical issues and parsing, word sense disambiguation and anaphora resolution, semantics, generation, machine translation, and categorisation and applications. The volume contains an extensive index.

Author : Karel Lambert,William Ulrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000014876165

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The Nature of Argument by Karel Lambert,William Ulrich Pdf

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