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Author : James W. Ney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110831849
No detailed description available for "Semantic Structures for the Syntax of Complements and Auxiliaries in English".
Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791428737
This book provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in current English. The investigation is based on a sample of matrix verbs that governs the pattern of sentential complementation. The data includes the Brown and LOB corpora, English dictionaries and grammars, and the intuitions of native speakers. Rudanko sets up taxonomies of matrix verbs and argues that they often can be based on relatively few core classes. He questions whether verbs selecting a pattern also select other patterns of sentential complementation. Noting the quantity and quality of such alternation, he observes how differences in form are linked to differences in meaning. The study of relevant matrix verbs, supplemented with discussion of alternation and other syntactic and semantic properties of the patterns, points to the semantic functions that are associated typically with each pattern of complementation.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110822939
No detailed description available for "Where have All the Adjectives Gone?".
Author : Erich F. Woisetschlaeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039391748
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191530043
This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of grammar its own function, their combinations creating and limiting the possibilities for different words. He uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words and in the process explains many facts about English - such as why we can say I wish to go, I wish that he would go, and I want to go but not I want that he would go. The first part of the book reviews the main points of English syntax and discusses English verbs in terms of their semantic types including those of Motion, Giving, Speaking, Liking, and Trying. In the second part Professor Dixon looks at eight grammatical topics, including complement clauses, transitivity and causatives, passives, and the promotion of a non-subject to subject, as in Dictionaries sell well. This is the updated and revised edition of A New Approach to English Grammar on Semantic Principles. It includes new chapters on tense and aspect, nominalizations and possession, and adverbs and negation, and contains a new discussion of comparative forms of adjectives. It also explains recent changes in English grammar, including how they has replaced the tabooed he as a pronoun referring to either gender, as in When a student reads this book, they will learn a lot about English grammar in a most enjoyable manner.
Author : Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027237392
This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have taken place; the number of periodicals and book series devoted to semiotics has increased as has the number of books and dissertations in the field. This bibliography is the result of a dedicated effort to approach complete coverage.
Author : Hendrik De Smet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199812752
Examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day
Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230195
"The semantics of grammar" presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither "autonomous" nor "arbitrary," but that it follows from "semantics." It is shown that every grammatical construction encodes a certain semantic structure, which can be revealed and rigorously stated, so that the meanings encoded in grammar can be compared in a precise and illuminating way, within one language and across language boundaries. The author develops a semantic metalanguage based on lexical universals or near-universals (and, ultimately, on a system of universal semantic primitives), and shows that the same semantic metalanguage can be used for explicating lexical, grammatical and pragmatic aspects of language and thus offers a method for an integrated linguistic description based on semantic foundations. Analyzing data from a number of different languages (including English, Russian and Japanese) the author explores the notion of ethnosyntax and, via semantics, links syntax and morphology with culture. She attemps to demonstrate that the use of a semantic metalanguage based on lexical universals makes it possible to rephrase the Humboldt-Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in such a way that it can be tested and treated as a program for empirical research.
Author : Dirk Geeraerts,Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 1365 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195143782
Part I: Basic Concepts (16 cap.) + Part II: Models of Grammar (3 cap.) + Part III: Situating Cognitive Linguistics (3 cap.) + Part IV: Linguistic Structure and Language Use (13 cap.) + Part V: Linguistic Variation and Change (7 cap.) + Part VI: Applied and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0887069312
This book offers a new and compendious account of important verbal patterns in present-day English. Serving as a central source of data, it updates and refines earlier research contributing to the syntactic and semantic description of English. Rudanko establishes an original framework, and systematically analyzes patterns of complementation using the tool of case grammar. The examination of Control, or EQUI, is a common theme and an important problem for transformationalists, and English syntacticians will value Rudanko's work on infinitive complements.
Author : Sigrid Beck,Remus Gergel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110346190
This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.
Author : Joan Bresnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315458717
The subject of this study, first published in 1979, is the role of the complementizer in English syntax and its implications for syntactic theory. It is argued that the familiar transformational treatment of complementizers is inadequate, and that they must be specified in deep structure by means of a Phrase Structure rule. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Author : E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275592
This sequel to the First Person Singular volumes published in 1980 and 1991, respectively (SiHoLS 21 and 61) presents autobiographical accounts by major North American linguists. This material provides an important primary source for the history and development of the discipline during the 20th century. The volume includes photographs of all contributors and is completed by a full index of biographical names and a detailed index of subjects and languages which turn it into a useful research tool.
Author : Gillian Ramchand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : English language
ISBN : 0262345889
Author : A.F. Freed
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400994751
Complementation has received a great deal of attention in the past fifteen to twenty years; various approcahes have been used to study it and different groups of complement-taking verbs have been examined. The approach taken here employs analytic techniques which have not been systematically applied before to this group of temporal aspectual verbs. In other works which have concentrated on these same verbs (perlmutter, 1968, 1970 and Newmeyer, 1969a, 1969b) few insights about the semantic properties of the verbs are formalized. In the present study, the various verbs and their complement structures as they appear in surface forms are considered for their associated presuppositions and consequences (entailments). The notions of presup position and consequence are defmed and used so as to take conversational interaction into consideration. This adds considerably to the information that can be obtained about the verbs in question. Furthermore, the analysis of these temporal aspectual verbs leads to a description of their complement structures in terms of 'events', a semantic category found to appropriately characterize the quality of most of these structures. In this analysis, events are described as consisting of several different temporal segments; thus the sentences contained in the complements of these verbs are described as naming events, each containing one or more of several possible temporal segments. The aspectualizers in tum, act as referentials, each referring to one or another of the event-segments named in their complements.
