The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Nominals
Author | : Judith N. Levi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Judith N. Levi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Olga Borik |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2015-04-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004291083 |
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 | : Denis Bouchard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1995-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226067339 |
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 | : Laurie Bauer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3319141023 |
This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds.
Author | : Malka Rappaport Hovav |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199544328 |
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 | : Patrick Saint-Dizier |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006-03-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1402038739 |
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 | : Martine Coene |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2003-07-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027296561 |
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 | : Siniruddha Dash |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Sanskrit language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anna Asbury |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027255037 |
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 | : Ralph Grishman |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780898596205 |
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.