Semantics And Syntax

Author : Denis Bouchard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226067335

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The Semantics of Syntax by Denis Bouchard Pdf

During the last thirty years, most linguists and philosophers have assumed that meaning can be represented symbolically and that the mental processing of language involves the manipulation of symbols. Scholars have assembled strong evidence that there must be linguistic representations at several abstract levels—phonological, syntactic, and semantic—and that those representations are related by a describable system of rules. Because meaning is so complex, linguists often posit an equally complex relationship between semantic and other levels of grammar. The Semantics of Syntax is an elegant and powerful analysis of the relationship between syntax and semantics. Noting that meaning is underdetermined by form even in simple cases, Denis Bouchard argues that it is impossible to build knowledge of the world into grammar and still have a describable grammar. He thus proposes simple semantic representations and simple rules to relate linguistic levels. Focusing on a class of French verbs, Bouchard shows how multiple senses can be accounted for by the assumption of a single abstract core meaning along with background information about how objects behave in the world. He demonstrates that this move simplifies the syntax at no cost to the descriptive power of the semantics. In two important final chapters, he examines the consequences of his approach for standard syntactic theories.

Author : F. Kiefer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401017077

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Studies in Syntax and Semantics by F. Kiefer Pdf

In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science. Not only have old problems been tackled from an entirely new point of view but also quite a few new fields of linguistic research have been opened. The common characteristic of the majority of the theories and methods developed recently is the search for a more adequate description of language. Adequacy does not mean simply that the theory must conform to the facts. It must also meet the general requirements of present-day theories: coherence, clear-cut notions, rigor of presentation. It has also become abundantly clear that linguistic research cannot be content with the registration and classification of linguistic phenomena. In one way or another linguistics must try to explain the deep-seated regularities in language which in general do not appear on the surface in some straightforward way. Therefore, we find the attribute 'deep' very often in contemporary linguistic literature. Linguistic theories seek an explanation for the observed facts in terms of a system of hypotheses about the functioning of language. As research proceeds these will undergo essential changes. Some of them will be waived, others com plemented. The papers of the present volume follow these general principles of linguistic theory though they may differ from each other in the way of presentation considerably. Some of the papers make use of the framework of transformational-generative grammar (e. g. Kuroda; Perlmutter), others approach the pertinent problem from a different angle (e. g. Dupraz and Rouault; Apresyan, Mel'cuk, and Zolkovski).

Author : Anna Asbury,Jakub Dotla?il,Berit Gehrke,Rick Nouwen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290748

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Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P by Anna Asbury,Jakub Dotla?il,Berit Gehrke,Rick Nouwen Pdf

The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these contributions is the complex semantic and syntactic structure of PPs. Analyses are presented in several different frameworks and approaches, including generative syntax, optimality theoretic semantics and syntax, formal semantics, mathematical modeling, lexical syntax, and pragmatics. Among the languages featured in detail are English, German, Hebrew, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, and Persian. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of formal semantics, syntax and language typology, as well as scholars with a more general interest in spatial cognition.

Author : Peter Seibel
Publisher : Apress
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430200178

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Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel Pdf

* Treats LISP as a language for commercial applications, not a language for academic AI concerns. This could be considered to be a secondary text for the Lisp course that most schools teach . This would appeal to students who sat through a LISP course in college without quite getting it – so a "nostalgia" approach, as in "wow-lisp can be practical..." * Discusses the Lisp programming model and environment. Contains an introduction to the language and gives a thorough overview of all of Common Lisp’s main features. * Designed for experienced programmers no matter what languages they may be coming from and written for a modern audience—programmers who are familiar with languages like Java, Python, and Perl. * Includes several examples of working code that actually does something useful like Web programming and database access.

Author : C. L. Ebeling
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9004057552

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Syntax and Semantics by C. L. Ebeling Pdf

Author : J. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521108292

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Semantics and Syntax by J. Miller Pdf

This book is concerned with the relationship between semantics and surface structure and in particular with the way in which each is mapped into the other. Jim Miller argues that semantic and syntactic structure require different representations and that semantic structure is far more complex than many analysts realise. He argues further that semantic structure should be based on notions of location and movement. The need for a semantic component of greater complexity is demonstrated by an examination of prepositions, particles, adverbs and verb-prefixes, and is shown to accord with cross-language and historical facts. The volume goes on to consider the sort of rules that are required to map semantic structures onto syntax. Semantics and Syntax tackles fundamental issues and draws together many of the key concepts of traditional grammar and formal linguistics. The general framework for handling syntax, semantics and morphology that it outlines is perhaps a controversial one, but it will be recognized as challenging and original.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262041715

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Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field. A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach to the analysis of linguistic structure. It is often referred to as the "glue" approach because of the role of logic in "gluing" meanings together. The "glue" approach has attracted significant attention from, among others, logicians working in the relatively new and active field of linear logic; linguists interested in a novel deductive approach to the interface between syntax and semantics within a nontransformational, constraint-based syntactic framework; and computational linguists and computer scientists interested in an approach to semantic composition that is grounded in a conceptually simple but powerful computational framework.This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field. Contributors Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark Johnson, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat, Josef van Genabith

Author : Malka Rappaport Hovav,Edit Doron,Ivy Sichel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199544325

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Lexical Semantics, Syntax, and Event Structure by Malka Rappaport Hovav,Edit Doron,Ivy Sichel Pdf

This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure, encompassing event participants and the temporal properties associated with events. They examine the interface between event structure and the systems with which it interacts, including the interface between event structure and the syntactic realization of arguments and modifiers. Deploying a variety of frameworks and theoretical perspectives they consider central issues and questions in the field, among them whether argument-structure is specified in the lexical entries of verbs or syntactically constructed so that syntactic position determines thematic status; whether the hierarchical structure evidenced in argument structure find parallels in sign language; should the relation between members of an alternation pair, such as the causative-inchoative alternation, be understood lexically or derivationally; and the role of syntactic category in determining the configuration of argument structure.

Author : C.T. James Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135217587

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Between Syntax and Semantics by C.T. James Huang Pdf

This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events.

Author : Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527569690

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Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by Robert D. Van Valin Jr. Pdf

This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka (Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia), Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.

Author : Robert D. van Valin, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139445375

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Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Robert D. van Valin, Jr. Pdf

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. This book looks in detail at how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Working within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), Van Valin proposes a set of rules, called the 'linking algorithm', which relates syntactic and semantic representations to each other, with discourse-pragmatics playing a role in the linking. Using this model, he discusses the full range of grammatical phenomena, including the structures of simple and complex sentences, verb and argument structure, voice, reflexivization and extraction restrictions. Clearly written and comprehensive, this book will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

Author : Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402038730

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Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions by Patrick Saint-Dizier Pdf

This is the first book to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. The book presents a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks.

Author : Zoltan Gendler Szabo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199251513

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Semantics Versus Pragmatics by Zoltan Gendler Szabo Pdf

This is a collection of papers by leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics on how semantics and pragmatics embed into a larger theory of interpretation and also on the disputed territories between these disciplines.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112316009

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Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky Pdf

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Author : Alexander Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521190961

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Arguments in Syntax and Semantics by Alexander Williams Pdf

A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics. Engages foundational issues in both syntax and semantics, with attention to the correspondence between structure at the two levels. Chapters include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.