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Author : Bożena Cetnarowska
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Syntax, Semantics and Derivation of Bare Nominalisations in English written by Bożena Cetnarowska and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bożena Cetnarowska
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Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Bare Nominalisations in English written by Bożena Cetnarowska and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith N. Levi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Nominals written by Judith N. Levi and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110245876
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discussing the syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations. The volume investigates the morpholgy-syntax interface as well as the semantics-syntax interface in the domain of nominalizations. The theoretical frameworks include distributed morphology, and minimalist syntax. Data from a variety of languages are taken into consideration, e.g. Hebrew, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Spanish, German and English.
Author : Alessandro Zucchi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0792324374
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The Language of Propositions and Events written by Alessandro Zucchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-10-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a superficial examination, English has different types of nominals with similar meaning and distribution: (1)a. John's performance ofthe song b. J ohn' s performing of the song c. John's performing the song d. the fact that John performs the song These nominals are also perceived by English speakers to be related to the same sentential construction: (2) John performs the song A more accurate inspection reveals, however, that the nominals in (1) differ both in their distribution and in the range of interpretations they allow. An adequate theory of nominalization should explicate rigorously how nominals of the types in (1) are related to sentential construction (2), and should also account for their distributional differences and meaning differences. The task of this book is to develop such a theory. I defend two main theses. The first is that, in order to provide an adequate semantics for the nominals in (1), one needs to distinguish among three types of entities in the domain of discourse (in addition to the type of ordinary individuals): events, propositions, and states xiii XIV PREFACE of affairs. I argue that the nominals in (1) differ in their ability to denote entities of these types and that predicates differ in their ability to select for them.
Author : Martine Coene
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296561
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book From NP to DP written by Martine Coene and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : T. Siloni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401588635
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Noun Phrases and Nominalizations written by T. Siloni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs is a theoretical study of nominal expressions which covers central aspects of their syntax that have not been approached with concurrent tools in recent years. The study examines the functional structure, offers a structural definition of syntactic nominalization, and carefully draws the border line between the lexical nominalizing mechanism and its syntactic counterpart. The empirical base of the study is broad and varied: it explores the rich nominal system of Modern Hebrew with constant comparisons to relevant structures of other Semitic and non-Semitic languages. The analyses put forward have recourse to a minimal syntactic apparatus, thus lending support to Chomsky's recent view of language design. This book targets researchers in theoretical linguistics and comparative syntax. Alongside theoretical and cross-linguistic findings, the book also offers an abundant source of insights into Hebrew nominal expressions. It can be used both as a foundational book on the syntax of nominal expressions or as a reference book for linguists and graduate students of Semitic and comparative syntax.
Author : Maria Bloch-Trojnar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505432
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Aspect and Valency in Nominals written by Maria Bloch-Trojnar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the recent theoretical developments in the area of mutual interactions of valency and aspect, as expressed in different types of verb-related nominal structures (nominalizations and synthetic compounds). A wide range of data from Slavic, Hellenic, Germanic, Romance and Semitic languages provides an empirical testing ground for competing theoretical explanations couched in the lexicalist and construction-based frameworks.
Author : Robert B. Lees
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Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Grammar of English Nominalizations written by Robert B. Lees and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oladiipo Ajiboye
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9785420892
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominal Expressions written by Oladiipo Ajiboye and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study is a departer from most previous work on Yoruba Grammar in the sense that rather than being purely a descriptive grammar; it attempts to provide a theoretical analysis of the internal and external syntax of Yoruba nominal expressions using the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters approach to syntax. This Generative theory attempts to characterize the grammar of all natural languages in terms of a set of universal principles that all languages share, and a set of parameters along which languages may vary. The book emphasizes the empirical motivation behind major theoretical proposals in that framework, and shows how views on the nature of universal grammar and cross-linguistic variation have developed over the years as a consequence of a massive increase in cross-linguistic syntactic research.
Author : Alexandra Colen
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Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Syntactic and Semantic Study of English Predicative Nominals written by Alexandra Colen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004437509
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns. It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of “partitive articles”. The outcome is a snapshot of current research into “partitive articles” and the way they relate to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages - like French and Italian, but also German - to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovençal.
Author : Johannes Kabatek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271259
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond written by Johannes Kabatek and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues. The volume focuses on the wide range of bare noun phenomena in Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Italian and French; but also widens its inherently comparative perspective to languages such as Bulgarian and Modern Hebrew. The authors discuss the importance of cross-linguistic patterns in the modeling of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of common noun denotations, the role of information structure as well as that of discourse traditions and coordination.
Author : Ileana Paul
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270708
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns written by Ileana Paul and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume address current topics in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations, drawing on a range of typologically and geographically diverse languages. Nominalizations represent a long-standing puzzle to linguists: How is a noun, such as destruction, related to the verb destroy? The semantic parallel between the deverbal nominalization and its related verb suggests that there is a close connection between the two. This volume contributes to the ongoing debates on how to capture this connection and how to account for the apparent mixed categorical status of nominalizations. This volume is essential for students and researchers interested in the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces.
Author : DIANA ȘTEFAN-DINESCU
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
ISBN 13 : 6061613962
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book On the syntax of deverbal nominalizations in English and Romanian written by DIANA ȘTEFAN-DINESCU and published by Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a syntactic and semantic perspective on the nominalization system in both English and Romanian. The three main types of deverbal nominalizations analysed here are complex event nominalizations (CENs), simple event nominals (SENs) and result nominals (RNs), according to the well-known distinction made by Grimshaw (1990). The hypothesis furthered in the present book is that in both languages deverbal nominalizations form a squish (see Ross 1972), i.e. an implicational hierarchy which is built on two dimensions, a syntactic dimension, i.e., the presence or absence of a complete VP, including some functional structure (AspP), and a semantic dimension, i.e., whether or not the nominalization expresses an event (see Wood 2020). Thus, all the properties of CENs, SENs and RNs described in the literature (Grimshaw 1990, Alexiadou 2001, Borer 2011, a.o.) are accounted for on the basis of these two dimensions and are illustrated on a vast corpus of authentic English and Romanian examples gathered from dictionaries and online corpora such as Corpusul computațional de referință pentru limba română contemporană (CoRoLa), the British National Corpus (BNC) and Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
Author : Lea Kawaletz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3985540705
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The semantics of English -ment nominalizations written by Lea Kawaletz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well-known that derivational affixes can be highly polysemous, producing a range of different, often related, meanings. For example, English deverbal nouns with the suffix -er can denote instruments (opener), agents (writer), locations (diner), or patients (loaner). It is commonly assumed that this polysemy arises through a compositional process in which the affix interacts with the semantics of the base. Yet, despite intensive research in recent years, a workable model for this interaction is still under debate. In order to study and model the semantic contributions of the base and of the affix, a framework is needed in which meanings can be composed and decomposed.In this book, I formalize the semantic input and output of derivation by means of frames, that is, recursive attribute-value structures that serve to model mental representations of concepts. In my approach, the input frame offers an array of semantic elements from which an affix may select to construct the derivative's meaning. The relationship between base and derivative is made explicit by integrating their respective frame-semantic representations into lexical rules and inheritance hierarchies. I apply this approach to a qualitative corpus study of the productive relationship between the English nominalizing suffix -ment and a semantically delimited set of verbal bases. My data set consists of 40 neologisms with base verbs from two semantic classes, namely change-of-state verbs and verbs of psychological state. I analyze 369 attestations which were elicited from various corpora with a purposeful sampling approach, and which were hand-coded using common semantic categories such as event, state, patient and stimulus. My results show that -ment can target a systematically restricted set of elements in the frame of a given base verb. It thereby produces a range of possible readings in each derivative, which becomes ultimately interpretable only within a specific context. The derivational process is governed by an interaction of the semantic elements provided by the base on the one hand, with properties of the affix (e.g. -ment's aversion to [+animate] readings) on the other. For instance, a shift from the verb annoy to a result-state reading in annoyment is possible because the input frame of verbs of psychological state offers a RESULT-STATE attribute, which, as is fixed in the inheritance hierarchy, is compatible with -ment. Meanwhile, a shift from annoy to an experiencer reading in annoyment fails because the value range of the attribute EXPERIENER is fixed to [+animate] entities, so that -ment's animacy constraint blocks the inheritance mechanism. Furthermore, a quantitative exploration of my data set reveals a likely blocking effect for some -ment readings. Thus, while I have found most expected combinations of nominalization and reading attested, there are pronounced gaps for readings like instrument or stimulus. Such readings are likely to be produced by standardly subject-denoting suffixes such as -er or -ant, which may reduce the probability for -ment derivation. The quantitative analysis furthermore shows that, within the subset of attested combinations, ambiguity is widespread, with 43% of all combinations of nominalization and reading being only attested ambiguously. This book shows how a derivational process acts on the semantics of a given verbal base by reporting on an in-depth qualitative study of the semantic contributions of both the base and the affix. Furthermore, it demonstrates that an explicit semantic decomposition of the base is essential for the analysis of the resulting derivative's semantics.
Author : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748689613
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization written by Pius ten Hacken and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the study of word formation, the focus has often been on generating the form. In this book, the semantic aspect of the formation of new words is central. It is viewed from the perspectives of word formation rules and of lexicalization. An extensive introduction gives a historical overview of the study of the semantics of word formation and lexicalization, explaining how the different theoretical frameworks used in the contributions relate to each other. Each chapter then concentrates on a specific question about a theoretical concept or a word formation process in a particular language and adopts a theoretical framework that is appropriate to the study of this question. From general theoretical concepts of productivity and lexicalization, the focus moves to terminology, compounding, and derivation. Theoretical frameworks discussed include Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure, Langacker's Cognitive Grammar, Lieber's lexical semantic approach to word formation, Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon, Beard's Lexeme-Morpheme-Base Morphology, The onomasiological approach to terminology and word formation.
