Origins Of Predicates

Author : Tomio Hirose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135885526

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Origins of Predicates by Tomio Hirose Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are subject to structurally defined constraints, such as c-command. Tomio Hirose illustrates this in his study of vP syntax, event semantics, morphology-syntax mappings, unaccusativity, noun incorporation, and valency-reducing phenomena.

Author : Tomio Hirose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135885519

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Origins of Predicates by Tomio Hirose Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are subject to structurally defined constraints, such as c-command. Tomio Hirose illustrates this in his study of vP syntax, event semantics, morphology-syntax mappings, unaccusativity, noun incorporation, and valency-reducing phenomena.

Author : Laurel J. Brinton,Minoji Akimoto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298751

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Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English by Laurel J. Brinton,Minoji Akimoto Pdf

The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the “take a look” construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to understand the collocational and idiomatic aspects of these structures, as well as of related structures such as complex prepositions (e.g., “on account of”) and phrasal verbs (e.g., “look up”), in their earliest manifestations. Moreover, study of these constructions at the individual stages of English leads to diachronic questions concerning their development, raising issues pertaining to grammaticalization, lexicalization, and idiomaticization-processes which are not always clearly differentiated nor fully understood.

Author : James R. Hurford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199207879

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The Origins of Grammar by James R. Hurford Pdf

The second in James Hurford's acclaimed two-volume exploration of the biological evolution of language explores the evolutionary and cultural preconditions and consequences of humanity's great leap into language.

Author : Tom Ricketts,Michael Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139825788

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The Cambridge Companion to Frege by Tom Ricketts,Michael Potter Pdf

Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century. His work is studied today not just for its historical importance but also because many of his ideas are still seen as relevant to current debates in the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and the mind. The Cambridge Companion to Frege provides a route into this lively area of research.

Author : Maurizio Gotti,Marina Dossena,Richard Dury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290991

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English Historical Linguistics 2006 by Maurizio Gotti,Marina Dossena,Richard Dury Pdf

The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many innovative contributions focused on syntax and morphology. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including one of the plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. State-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and concordancing software, are employed consistently, ensuring a methodological homogeneity of the contributions.

Author : Laurel J. Brinton,Minoji Akimoto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230508

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Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English by Laurel J. Brinton,Minoji Akimoto Pdf

The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the “take a look” construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to understand the collocational and idiomatic aspects of these structures, as well as of related structures such as complex prepositions (e.g., “on account of”) and phrasal verbs (e.g., “look up”), in their earliest manifestations. Moreover, study of these constructions at the individual stages of English leads to diachronic questions concerning their development, raising issues pertaining to grammaticalization, lexicalization, and idiomaticization-processes which are not always clearly differentiated nor fully understood.

Author : Boban Arsenijević,Berit Gehrke,Rafael Marín
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400759831

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Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates by Boban Arsenijević,Berit Gehrke,Rafael Marín Pdf

This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure. The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to ‘event structure’ frameworks and mereological models for the eventuality domain, have sidelined research on specific sets of entailments that support a typology of event predicates. Addressing this imbalance in the literature, the work also presents evidence indicating a more complex role for scalar structures than currently assumed. It will enrich the work of semanticists, psycholinguists, and syntacticians with a decompositional approach to verb phrase structure.

Author : J. E. Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192573933

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The Metaphysics of Quantities by J. E. Wolff Pdf

What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood question through the novel position of substantival structuralism. This position argues that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces. The book first explores what it means for an attribute to be quantitative, and what metaphysical implications a commitment to quantitative attributes has. It then sets the stage to address the metaphysical and ontological consequences of the existence of quantitative attributes.

Author : Andrea Moro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521562331

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The Raising of Predicates by Andrea Moro Pdf

One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the predicative noun phrase occupies the position which is canonically reserved for subjects. In the process, he sheds new light on such classical issues as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory and cliticization phenomena.

Author : Antonio Rosmini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : NYPL:33433070238682

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The Origin of Ideas by Antonio Rosmini Pdf

Author : Antonio Rosmini
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385339217

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The Origin of Ideas. Translated from the Fifth Italian Edition of the Nuovo Saggio Sull'origine Delle Idee by Antonio Rosmini Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : A. M. Bolkestein,C. de Groot,J. L. Mackenzie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110250527

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Predicates and Terms in Functional Grammar by A. M. Bolkestein,C. de Groot,J. L. Mackenzie Pdf

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Author : Jürgen Trabant,Sean Ward
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110849080

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New Essays on the Origin of Language by Jürgen Trabant,Sean Ward Pdf

The contributions to this volume reflect the state of the art in the renewed discussion on the origin of language. Some of the most important specialists in the field - life scientists and linguists - primarily examine two aspects of the question: the origin of the language faculty and the evolution of the first language. At stake is the relation between nature and culture and between universality and historical particularity as well as cognition, communication, and the very essence of language.

Author : Susan Rothstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 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'.