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Author : Naděžda Kudrnáčová
Publisher : Hledání flow
ISBN 13 : 8021045221
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Directed Motion at the Syntax-semantics Interface written by Naděžda Kudrnáčová and published by Hledání flow. This book was released on 2008 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luke Ong
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642326218
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Logic, Language, Information, and Computation written by Luke Ong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Communication, WoLLIC 2012, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2012. The papers accompanying 8 invited lectures are presented together with 16 contributed papers; the latter were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers report advances in inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, theory of computation, foundations of mathematics, and computational linguistics.
Author : Naděžda Kudrnáčová
Publisher : Masarykova univerzita
ISBN 13 : 802107633X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Caused Motion: Secondary Agent Constructions written by Naděžda Kudrnáčová and published by Masarykova univerzita. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monografie je příspěvkem ke studiu vztahů mezi rovinou sémantickou, pragmatickou a syntaktickou. Na materiálu převážně z Britského národního korpusu a Korpusu současné americké angličtiny analyzuje anglické kauzativní konstrukce s intranzitivními slovesy pohybu (konstrukce se sekundárním konatelem), které byly dosud v literatuře pojednány pouze parciálně. Identifikuje několik (částečně se překrývajících) konstrukčních podtypů a soubor faktorů, které umožňují slovesům vstupovat do daných konstrukcí. Práce má interdisciplinární povahu: přináší nové poznatků z psycholingvistiky a filozofie jazyka. Práce je určena lingvistům a studentům lingvistiky.
Author : Jens Fleischhauer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110720299
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface written by Jens Fleischhauer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.
Author : Beth Levin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620949
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Unaccusativity written by Beth Levin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994-12-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax. Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over the last fifteen years. Besides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax. Perlmutter's Unaccusative Hypothesis proposes that there are two classes of intransitive verbs - unergatives and unaccusatives - each associated with a distinct syntactic configuration. Unaccusativity begins by isolating the semantic factors that determine whether a verb will be unaccusative or unergative through a careful examination of the behavior of intransitive verbs from a range of semantic classes in diverse syntactic constructions. Notable are the extensive discussions of verbs of motion, verbs of emission, and various types of verbs of change of state. The authors then introduce rules that determine the syntactic expression of the arguments of the verbs investigated and examine the interactions among them. The proper treatment of verbs that systematically show multiple meanings - and hence variable classification as unaccusative or unergative - is also considered. In the final chapter, the authors argue that the distribution of locative inversion, a purported unaccusative diagnostic, is determined instead by discourse considerations. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 26
Author : James Higginbotham
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191567485
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality written by James Higginbotham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. The book brings together his key contributions to the fields, including his recent intervention in the debate on the roles of context and anaphora in reference. The book's chapters are presented in the form in which they were first published, with afterwords where needed to cover points where the author's thought has developed. It is fully indexed and has a collated bibliography. This will be a precious resource for all those involved in the study of current semantics, and its interactions with syntactic theory, in linguistics, philosophy, and related fields.
Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191571903
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Meaning and the Lexicon written by Ray Jackendoff and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are independent generative components, and in which knowledge of language consists of a repertoire of stored structures. Some of these structures, such as words and morphemes, are idiosyncratic mappings between phonology, syntax, and meaning; some, such as idioms, attach meaning to larger syntactic structures; other structures are purely syntactic or morphosyntactic; and yet others are pieces of meaning with no syntactic or phonological form. The Parallel Architecture also seeks to explain and understand how language is integrated with human cognition, particularly with vision. Professor Jackendoff examines inherently meaningful syntactic constructions, incorporating insights from Construction Grammar; and he looks at how aspects of meaning can be unexpressed but nevertheless understood, integrating approaches from Generative Lexicon theory. A recurring focus is the balance in grammar between idiosyncrasy, regularity, and semiregularity. The chapters cover a wide range of phenomena, from well-studied domains such as the mass-count distinction, event structure, resultatives, and noun-noun compounds, to offbeat aspects of English grammar such as the time-away construction (We're twistin' the night away), contrastive focus reduplication (Do you LIKE-him-like him?) and the noun-preposition-noun construction (week after week). Ray Jackendoff draws on work in a wide range of fields, including linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy. His writing combines depth of thought with clarity and wit. Meaning and the Lexicon will be read and enjoyed by linguists of all theoretical persuasions, and will be of great interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers, and anyone interested in how language operates in the mind, brain, and human communication.
Author : Songül Gündoğdu
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 386309686X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Current issues in Kurdish linguistics written by Songül Gündoğdu and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics contains ten contributions which span the field of Kurdish linguistics, both in terms of geography and in terms of the range of topics. Along with several works on Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) and Sorani (Central Kurdish), two chapters shed light on the lesser-known Southern Kurdish language area. Other studies are comparative, and treat the Kurdish language area in its entirety. The linguistic approaches of the authors are a mix of formal and typological perspectives, and cover topics ranging from geographical distribution and variation to phonology, morphosyntax, discourse structure, historical morphology, and sociolinguistics. The present volume is the first of its kind in bringing together contributions from a relatively large number of linguists, working in a diverse range of frameworks and on different aspects and varieties of Kurdish. As such, it attests to the increasing breadth and sophistication now evident in Kurdish linguistics, and is a worthy launch for the new series Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics (BSKL).
Author : J. H. W. Penney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199258929
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Indo-European Perspectives written by J. H. W. Penney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together new and original work by forty two of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the world. It shows the breadth and the continuing liveliness of enquiry in an area which over the last century and a half has opened many unique windows on the civilizations of the ancient world. The volume is a tribute to Anna Morpurgo Davies to mark her retirement as the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. The book's six parts are concerned with the early history of Indo-European (Part I); language use, variation, and change in ancient Greece and Anatolia (Parts II and III); the Indo-European languages of Western Europe, including Latin, Welsh, and Anglo-Saxon (Part IV); the ancient Indo-Iranian and Tocharian languages (Part V); and the history of Indo-European linguistics (Part VI). Indo-European Perspectives will interest scholars and students of Indo-European philology, historical linguistics, classics, and the history of the ancient world.
Author : Cristiano Broccias
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311090120X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The English Change Network written by Cristiano Broccias and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions.
Author : Anna Asbury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290741
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P written by Anna Asbury and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michel Aurnague
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262500
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French written by Michel Aurnague and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties were related to specific semantic distinctions, such as the opposition between “movement” and “displacement”. This volume provides an overview of recent studies on the semantics of dynamic space in French and addresses important questions about motion expression, among which “goal bias” and asymmetry of motion, the status of locative PPs, the expression of manner, fictive or non-actual motion. Descriptive, experimental and formal or computational analyses are presented, providing complementary perspectives on the main issue. The volume is intended for researchers and advanced students wishing to learn about both spatial semantics in French and recent debates on the representation of motion events in language and cognition.
Author : Violeta Demonte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199693498
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Telicity, Change, and State written by Violeta Demonte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects of event structure by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies from a variety of languages. The book begins with an overview of the theoretical issues central to the volume, along with a brief presentation of the remaining chapters and the points of contact between them. The chapters, developed within several different theoretical perspectives, promote cross-theory as well as cross-linguistic comparison. The work will interest scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition who are interested in the notions of telicity, change, and stativity.
Author : Neal Snape
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289999
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Representational Deficits in SLA written by Neal Snape and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been devoted to explaining lack of native-like success in terms of representational deficits. The papers in this volume feature a range of studies, all undertaken within a generative linguistic framework, which investigate various properties of L2 grammar bearing on the question of whether or not there are representational deficits in the post-critical-period L2 learners’ grammar. The significance of such deficits, if their existence can be confirmed, is that they provide support for the claim, at least for the type of L2 learner under investigation, that there are insurmountable obstacles to ultimate attainment.
Author : Emile van der Zee
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199260195
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Representing Direction in Language and Space written by Emile van der Zee and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in a new series at the forefront of research in the interfaces between brain, perception, and language.
Author : Xuhui Hu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019253596X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Encoding Events written by Xuhui Hu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents theoretical and empirical research on the syntax of events within the broader framework of generative grammar, focusing on the central question of how conceptual meaning interacts with narrow syntactic computation. Xuhui Hu proposes a set of integration conditions that require the content of the predicate to be licensed by theta-role information generated by narrow syntax. The other principal theoretical component of the book concerns the functional structure of events, which is related to issues such as the parallel between the event and nominal domains, the mapping of a predicate onto an entity, and the grammatical foundation of verb classification. The framework is applied to three areas: the syntax of resultatives in English and Chinese, cross-linguistic and diachronic variation in resultatives, and applicative constructions. The findings shed light on the thematic relationship between core arguments and predicates and on the syntax of non-core arguments, contribute to the theory of parametric variation in the generative tradition, and provide insights into the verb-framed vs satellite-framed typology
Author : Antonio Fabregas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472532716
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Linguistic Parameters written by Antonio Fabregas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them. This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be :lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them? The questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology? This is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume.
