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The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System

Author : Diana Guillemin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027252602
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System by : Diana Guillemin

Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System written by Diana Guillemin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC, and accounts for the very different determiner systems of the creole and its lexifier. MC nouns are lexically stored as Kind denoting terms, that share some of the distributional properties of English bare plurals. New MC determiners are analyzed as 'type shifting operators' that shift Kinds into predicates, and serve to establish the referential properties of noun phrases. The analysis provides evidence for the universality of semantic features like Definiteness and Specificity, and the mapping of their form and function.

Determiners

Author : Jila Ghomeshi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902725530X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Determiners by : Jila Ghomeshi

Download or read book Determiners written by Jila Ghomeshi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are variable? In recent theorizing, much of language variation is argued to stem from differences in the properties of features associated with functional heads. As such, this volume can be viewed as a case study of one such category: the determiner (D). The contributions all investigate the status of D as a language universal by examining the language-specific syntactic and semantic properties associated with this category. This volume will appeal to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, as well as to those who have more a specific interest in determiners and noun phrases.

Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference

Author : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004261443
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference by : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr

Download or read book Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference written by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, Catalan and Danish. Part Two examines language specific definiteness marking strategies in spoken and signed languages—differentiated definiteness marking in Germanic, double definiteness in Greek, adnominal demonstratives in Japanese, ‘weak’ definiteness in Martiniké and the special referring options made avilable by signing. Part Three examines the second-language acquisition of genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language acquisition. Contributors include: Željko Bošković, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Edit Doron, Nomi Erteschik Shir, Brigitte Garcia, Elaine Grolla, Tania Ionin, Loïc Jean-Louis, Makoto Kaneko, Marika Lekakou, Silvina Montrul, Ana Müller, Asya Pereltsvaig, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Helade Santos, Serkan Şener, Rebekka Studler, Kriszta Szendröi, Anne Zribi-Hertz.

Analyzing Syntax and Semantics

Author : Virginia A. Heidinger
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913580912
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Analyzing Syntax and Semantics by : Virginia A. Heidinger

Download or read book Analyzing Syntax and Semantics written by Virginia A. Heidinger and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 22-chapter text explores the structure of language and the meaning of words within a given structure. The text/workbook combination gives students both the theory and practice they need to understand this complex topic. Analyzing Syntax and Semantics features the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) approach. This method uses student performance objectives, practice, feedback, individualization of pace, and repeatable testing as instructional strategies.

Language Structure, Variation and Change

Author : Ian E. Mackenzie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030105679
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Structure, Variation and Change by : Ian E. Mackenzie

Download or read book Language Structure, Variation and Change written by Ian E. Mackenzie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking. Its analysis of both successful and failed changes demonstrates the degree of unpredictability caused by the interaction of competing factors and will shed fresh light on the assumed unidirectionality of linguistic change. Importantly, it reveals that Old Spanish and modern Spanish are more similar to one another than is usually supposed and demonstrates that many of the differences between the two varieties are quantitative rather than qualitative. This theoretically sophisticated examination of historical corpora will provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Old and modern Spanish, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and syntax.

The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System

Author : Diana Guillemin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027284709
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System by : Diana Guillemin

Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System written by Diana Guillemin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC, and accounts for the very different determiner systems of the creole and its lexifier. MC nouns are lexically stored as Kind denoting terms, that share some of the distributional properties of English bare plurals. New MC determiners are analyzed as ‘type shifting operators’ that shift Kinds into predicates, and serve to establish the referential properties of noun phrases. The analysis provides evidence for the universality of semantic features like Definiteness and Specificity, and the mapping of their form and function.

From NP to DP: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases

Author : Martine Coene
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227768
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis From NP to DP: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases by : Martine Coene

Download or read book From NP to DP: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases written by Martine Coene and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 374 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.

Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies

Author : Lisa Matthewson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies by : Lisa Matthewson

Download or read book Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies written by Lisa Matthewson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Semantics

Author : Sebastian Loebner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134647158
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Semantics by : Sebastian Loebner

Download or read book Understanding Semantics written by Sebastian Loebner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position. Understanding Semantics offers a complete introduction to linguistic semantics. The book takes a step-by-step approach, starting with the basic concepts and moving through the central questions to examine the methods and results of the science of linguistic meaning. Understanding Semantics unites the treatment of a broad scale of phenomena using data from different languages with a thorough investigation of major theoretical perspectives. It leads the reader from their intuitive knowledge of meaning to a deeper understanding of the use of scientific reasoning in the study of language as a communicative tool, of the nature of linguistic meaning, and of the scope and limitations of linguistic semantics. Ideal as a first textbook in semantics for undergraduate students of linguistics, this book is also recommended for students of literature, philosophy, psychology and cognitive science.

The Semantics of Determiners

Author : Carrie Gillon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443863483
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Semantics of Determiners by : Carrie Gillon

Download or read book The Semantics of Determiners written by Carrie Gillon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the properties of determiners in Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Salish. Determiners in Skwxwú7mesh are shown to behave significantly differently from the definite determiner the in English, as Skwxwú7mesh lacks a definite/indefiniteness distinction. All Skwxwú7mesh DPs can be used in both familiar and novel contexts, and are not required to refer to a unique entity. Instead, Skwxwú7mesh determiners are split along deictic/non-deicticlines. Determiners can therefore vary in terms of their semantics. However, determiners are argued to universally encode contextual sensitivity (domain restriction). A strict correlation between the syntax and semantics of determiners is proposed: if an article occupies D, it is context sensitive. Conversely, articles that do not occupy D are not context sensitive. This book also explores determiner systems in other Salish languages. Deixis is a part of most of the Salish determiner systems, but the systems vary quite a bit from one another. Other languages discussed include Inuttut (Labrador Inuktitut), Lithuanian and Maori.

Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270694
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs by : Artemis Alexiadou

Download or read book Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools that can be used to keep the different instantiations of the phenomenon apart and argues that a uniform account thereof is not desirable. On the basis of these tools, it advances the proposal that there are different types of multiple occurrences of determiners (and sub-types thereof), some are syntactic, while others are purely morphological. It then puts forth a theoretical proposal that regulates the presence of the different types of multiple determiners across languages. The book will be of interst to researchers and students working on the structure of DP, the syntax of modification and the typology of noun phrases. Languages discussed include Greek, Romanian, Scandinavian, English, dialects of German, Hebrew, Albanian, Chinese, French, and Slovenian.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII

Author : Abdel-Khalig Ali
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027256934
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII by : Abdel-Khalig Ali

Download or read book Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII written by Abdel-Khalig Ali and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features eight peer-reviewed chapters based on papers presented at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Toronto in 2019. The chapters are divided into four sections: sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, syntax, and first language acquisition. They present research on relatively well-studied Arabic varieties such as the Moroccan, Jordanian, and Emirati varieties as well as understudied varieties such as the Palestinian dialects of Gaza and Jaffa, and the Saudi dialects of Al-Ahsa, Ha’il, and Faifi. The chapters address linguistic phenomena that range from language variation and change, the phonemic status and feature composition of rhotics, and the realization patterns of emphatic fricatives to the grammaticalization of aspectual markers, the syntactic and pragmatic aspects of post-wh-questions, and the acquisition trajectory of the definite article. The volume makes valuable descriptive and theoretical contributions to Arabic linguistics.

Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Author : Chiara Gianollo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110352303
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface by : Chiara Gianollo

Download or read book Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface written by Chiara Gianollo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.

An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory

Author : Dominique Sportiche
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118470478
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory by : Dominique Sportiche

Download or read book An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory written by Dominique Sportiche and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical features such as 'practice' boxes and sidebars, designed to facilitate understanding of both the 'hows' and the 'whys' of sentence structure Guides readers through syntactic and morphological structures in a progressive manner Takes the mystery out of one of the most crucial aspects of the workings of language – the principles and processes behind the structure of sentences Ideal for students with minimal knowledge of current syntactic research, it progresses in theoretical difficulty from basic ideas and theories to more complex and advanced, up to date concepts in syntactic theory

Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

Author : Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402038739
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions by : Patrick Saint-Dizier

Download or read book Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions written by Patrick Saint-Dizier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1789256801
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much focus in writing systems research has been on the correspondences on the level of the grapheme/phoneme. Seeking to complement these, this monograph considers the targets of graphic word-level units in natural language, focusing on ancient North West Semitic (NWS) writing systems, principally Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician and Ugaritic. While in Modern European languages word division tends to mark-up morphosyntactic elements, in most NWS writing systems word division is argued to target prosodic units, whereby written 'words' consist of units which must be pronounced together with a single primary accent or stress. This is opposed to other possibilities including Semantic word division, as seen in Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic. The monograph starts by considering word division in a source where, unlike the rest of the material considered, the phonology is well represented, the medieval tradition of Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic. There word division is found to mark-up 'minimal prosodic words', i.e. units that must under any circumstances be pronounced together as a single phonological unit. After considering the Sitz im Leben of such a word division strategy, the monograph moves on to compare Tiberian word division with that in early epigraphic NWS, where it is shown that orthographic wordhood has an almost identical distribution. The most economical explanation for this is argued to be that word division has the same underlying basis in NWS writing since the earliest times. Thereafter word division in Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform is considered, where two word division strategies are identified, corresponding broadly to two genres of text, poetry and prose. 'Poetic' word division is taken as an instance of mainstream 'prosodic word division', while the other is morphosyntactic in scope anticipating later word division strategies in Europe by several centuries. Finally, the monograph considers the digital encoding of word division in NWS texts, especially the difficulties, as well as potential solutions to, the problem of marking up texts with overlapping, viz. morphosyntactic and prosodic, analyses.

Morphosyntactic Development in Child Emirati Arabic

Author : Dimitrios Ntelitheos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513796
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Morphosyntactic Development in Child Emirati Arabic by : Dimitrios Ntelitheos

Download or read book Morphosyntactic Development in Child Emirati Arabic written by Dimitrios Ntelitheos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates selected aspects of the grammatical development of Emirati Arabic, the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates and closely related to the varieties spoken in the rest of the Gulf States. While the acquisition of Arabic as a second language has been widely studied, first language acquisition of different Arabic dialects has received much less attention. Ntelitheos addresses this disparity by presenting a number of systematic studies on the acquisition of Emirati Arabic grammar based on a two-year longitudinal corpus of six children. He discusses the acquisition of the nominal domain, including definiteness and possession; the acquisition of verbal functional structure and agreement; and the acquisition of word order and negation in the syntactic domain. In addition, he defines several developmental stages for Emirati Arabic, based on established diagnostic tests. The discussion is framed within a general survey of the relevant literature in Arabic acquisition studies and combines new empirical data with rigorous discussion of several long-standing theoretical problems in the broader field of child language development.