The Semantics Of Nouns

Author : Zhengdao Ye
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198736721

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The Semantics of Nouns by Zhengdao Ye Pdf

This volume represents state-of-the-art research on the semantics of nouns. It offers detailed and systematic analyses of scores of individual nouns across many different conceptual domains--'people', 'beings', 'creatures', 'places', 'things', 'living things', and 'parts of the body and parts of the person'. A range of languages, both familiar and unfamiliar, is examined. These include Australian Aboriginal languages (Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara), (Mandarin) Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Koromu (a Papuan language), Russian, Polish, and Solega (a Dravidian language). Each rigorous and descriptively rich analysis is fully grounded in a unified methodological framework consistently employed throughout the volume, and each chapter not only relates to central theoretical issues specific to the semantic analysis of the domain in question, but also empirically investigates the different types of meaning relations holding between nouns, such as meronymy, hyponymy, taxonomy, and antonymy...

Author : Paul Portner,Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110589443

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Semantics - Noun Phrases and Verb Phrases by Paul Portner,Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn Pdf

Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area.

Author : Fred Landman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030427137

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Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns and Count Nouns by Fred Landman Pdf

Iceberg semantics is a new framework of Boolean semantics for mass nouns and count nouns in which the interpretation of a noun phrase rises up from a generating base and floats with its base on its Boolean part set, like an iceberg. The framework is shown to preserve the attractive features of classical Boolean semantics for count nouns; the book argues that Iceberg semantics forms a much better framework for studying mass nouns than the classical theory does. Iceberg semantics uses its notion of base to develop a semantic theory of the differences between mass nouns and count nouns and between different types of mass nouns, in particular between prototypical mass nouns (here called mess mass nouns) like water and mud versus object mass nouns (here called neat mass nouns) like poultry and pottery. The book shows in detail how and why neat mass nouns pattern semantically both with mess mass nouns and with count nouns. Iceberg semantics is a compositional theory and in Iceberg semantics the semantic distinctions defined apply to noun phrases of any complexity. The book studies in depth the semantics of classifier noun phrases (like three glasses of wine) and measure noun phrases (like three liters of wine). The classical wisdom is that classifier interpretations are count. Recent literature has argued compellingly that measure interpretations are mass. The book shows that both connections follow from the basic architecture of Iceberg semantics. Audience: Scholars and students in linguistics - in particular semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics and syntax – and neighbouring disciplines like logic, philosophy of language, and cognitive science.

Author : Laure Gardelle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261748

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Semantic Plurality by Laure Gardelle Pdf

This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting ‘more than one’ entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cuts across number, the count/non-count distinction, and lexical/NP levels, reveals a very consistent Scale of Unit Integration, which establishes clear-cut boundaries for collective nouns, and accommodates cases such as three elephant, cattle or a chain of islands. The study also offers a refined understanding of aggregate nouns (a category nearly as large as that of collective nouns) and quantification in pseudo-partitives, develops Guillaume’s notion of ‘internal plurality’, and proposes the innovative concept of ‘hyperonyms of plural classes’ (e.g. furniture). The Animacy Hierarchy is also found to be influential, beyond hybrid agreement. The book aims to be accessible to scholars of any theoretical background interested in these topics.

Author : Martin Schäfer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961100309

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The semantic transparency of English compound nouns by Martin Schäfer Pdf

What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its assessment? This work approaches these questions by investigating English compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions. After a chapter on the semantic analysis of complex nominals, it closes with a chapter on previous attempts to model semantic transparency. The second part introduces new empirical work on semantic transparency, introducing two different sets of statistical models for compound transparency. In particular, two semantic factors were explored: the semantic relations holding between compound constituents and the role of different readings of the constituents and the whole compound, operationalized in terms of meaning shifts and in terms of the distribution of specifc readings across constituent families. All semantic annotations used in the book are freely available.

Author : Paul Portner,Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110587302

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Semantics - Noun Phrases and Verb Phrases by Paul Portner,Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn Pdf

Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area.

Author : Martine Coene,Yves D’hulst
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296566

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From NP to DP by Martine Coene,Yves D’hulst Pdf

This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis which takes noun phrases to be headed by a functional head D(eterminer). The major concerns can be grouped around 3 subthemes: the internal syntax of noun phrases, the syntax and semantics of bare nouns and indefinites and the expression of measurement in noun phrases. The wealth of data coming from over 40 different languages combined with a thorough introduction to the current issues in the field of NPs/DPs and some alternative syntactic and semantic analyses, provide a comprehensive reference work from both a descriptive and a theoretical point of view. The second volume is concerned exclusively with the expression of possession in noun phrases.

Author : E. Viegas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401709521

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Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons by E. Viegas Pdf

Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with the depth (or content) aspect of lexicons, ignoring the breadth (or coverage) aspect. This book presents a first attempt in the community to address both issues: content and coverage of computational semantic lexicons, in a thorough manner. Moreover, it addresses issues which have not yet been tackled in implemented systems such as the application time of lexical rules. Lexical rules and lexical underspecification are also contrasted in implemented systems. The main approaches in the field of computational (lexical) semantics are represented in the present book (including Wordnet, CyC, Mikrokosmos, Generative Lexicon). This book embraces several fields (and subfields) as different as: linguistics (theoretical, computational, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics, cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, statistics and natural language processing. The book also constitutes a very good introduction to the state of the art in computational semantic lexicons of the late 1990s.

Author : Olga Borik,Berit Gehrke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004291089

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The Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-Incorporation by Olga Borik,Berit Gehrke Pdf

This volume brings together recent research on the semantics and syntax of pseudo-incorporation (PI), which is a construction of crucial significance for linguistic explorations as it brings together several fundamental areas of linguistic research, such as morphology, argument structure, modification, discourse and information structure. The main purpose of the book is to further improve our understanding of the phenomenon, expand the domain of inquiry by bringing into focus new empirical data from a wide array of languages, offer new formal analyses of PI, and strengthen the links with other related phenomena, such as bare nominals. Focusing on various properties of PI the articles in this volume set an excellent ground for further expansion of research in PI and related topics. Contributors are Michael Barrie, Olga Borik, Veneeta Dayal, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Werner Frey, Berit Gehrke, Ion Giurgea, Audrey Li, Fereshteh Modarresi, Olav Mueller-Reichau, Natalia Serdobolskaya, and Henriëtte de Swart.

Author : Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Semantics
ISBN : 0415266351

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Semantics: Noun phrase classes by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach Pdf

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230195

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The Semantics of Grammar by Anna Wierzbicka Pdf

"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 : Judith N. Levi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015066413439

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The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Nominals by Judith N. Levi Pdf

Author : Doris Gerland,Christian Horn,Anja Latrouite,Albert Ortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110720075

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Meaning and Grammar of Nouns and Verbs by Doris Gerland,Christian Horn,Anja Latrouite,Albert Ortmann Pdf

The papers collected in this book cover contemporary and original research on semantic and grammatical issues of nouns and noun phrases, verbs and sentences, and aspects of the combination of nouns and verbs, in a great variety of languages. A special focus is put on noun types, tense and aspect semantics, granularity of verb meaning, and subcompositionality. The investigated languages and language groups include Austronesian, East Asian, Slavic, German, English, Hungarian and Lakhota. The collection provided in this book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students specialising in the fields of semantics, morphology, syntax, typology, and cognitive sciences.

Author : Susan Rothstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107001275

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Semantics for Counting and Measuring by Susan Rothstein Pdf

The book is an investigation of the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective. It reviews some recent major linguistic results in these topics, and presents the author's new research including in-depth case studies of a number of typologically unrelated languages.

Author : Michaela Mahlberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027222916

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English General Nouns by Michaela Mahlberg Pdf

This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nouns are defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterized by their textual functions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976), the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study is fundamentally different and set in a linguistic framework that prioritizes lexis. The study investigates 20 nouns that are very frequent in mainstream English, as represented by the Bank of English Corpus. The corpus-driven approach to the data involves a critical discussion of descriptive tools, such as patterns, semantic prosodies, and primings of lexical items, and the concept of? local textual functions? is put forward to characterize the functions of the nouns in texts. The study not only suggests a characterization of general nouns, but also stresses that functions of lexical items and properties of texts are closely linked. This link requires new ways of describing language.