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Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112316002 |
Download Syntactic Structures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Denis Bouchard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1995-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226067339 |
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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 | : Dominique Sportiche |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1118470478 |
Download An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offersbeginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction toour current understanding of the rules and principles that governthe syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical features such as‘practice’ boxes and sidebars, designed to facilitateunderstanding of both the ‘hows’ and the‘whys’ of sentence structure Guides readers through syntactic and morphological structuresin a progressive manner Takes the mystery out of one of the most crucial aspects of theworkings of language – the principles and processes behindthe structure of sentences Ideal for students with minimal knowledge of current syntacticresearch, it progresses in theoretical difficulty from basic ideasand theories to more complex and advanced, up to date concepts insyntactic theory
Author | : Robert D. Van Valin (Jr.) |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1997-12-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521499156 |
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An introduction to syntactic theory and analysis.
Author | : Stephen Wechsler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199279896 |
Download Word Meaning and Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics. It approaches the interface from both sides of the relation, and surveys a range of views on the mapping between them, with an emphasis on lexical approaches to argument structure. Stephen Wechsler begins by analysing the fundamental problem of word meaning, with discussions of vagueness and polysemy, complemented with a look at the roles of world knowledge and normative aspects of word meaning. He then surveys the argument-taking properties of verbs and other predicators, and presents key theories of lexical semantic structure. Later chapters provide a description of formal theories and frameworks for capturing the mapping from word meaning to syntactic structure, as well as arguments in favour of a lexicalist approach to argument structure. The book will interest scholars of theoretical linguistics, particularly in the fields of syntax and lexical semantics, as well as those interested in psycholinguistics and philosophy of language.
Author | : Connor Ferris |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317894146 |
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This book adopts a new approach to a major area of syntax - the way in which adjectives are bound together with other words in phrases or sentences.
Author | : Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2021-07-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1527571815 |
Download Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume brings together a number of researchers working on generative syntax and semantics, language acquisition and phonology to explore various theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative grammar and formal semantics to more descriptive approaches. The contributions gathered here investigate various aspects in the syntax, semantics, phonology and acquisition of Romanian in comparison with other (mainly Romance) languages. The book will be of interest to linguists who are keen on keeping up with the latest advances in the field of Romance studies, as well as those whose research bears on languages such as Hungarian, German, and Maltese, among others.
Author | : Zygmunt Frajzyngier |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027267286 |
Download The Role of Functions in Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The main aim of this book is to address a fundamental question in linguistics, namely why languages are similar and why they are different. The study proposes that languages are fundamentally similar when they encode the same meanings in their grammatical systems and that languages are different when they encode different meanings. Even if languages encode the same meaning, they may differ with respect to the formal means used to code those meanings. This approach allows for a typology based on functional domains, subdomains and functions coded in individual languages. The outcome of the study is a unified approach to language theory, linguistic typology, and descriptive linguistics. The argumentation for the hypotheses and the proposed approach is supported by analyses of data from more than a dozen languages, including English, Polish, French, Wandala, Mina, Hdi, and several other Chadic languages. The study is accessible to a wide variety of linguists.
Author | : Gillian Catriona Ramchand |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521182348 |
Download Verb Meaning and the Lexicon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the connections between lexical conceptual meaning and event structural relations, this book arrives at a modular classification of verb types within English and across languages. Ramchand argues that lexical encyclopedic content and event structural aspects of meaning need to be systematically distinguished, and that thematic and aspectual relations belong to the latter domain of meaning. The book proposes a syntactic decompositional view of core verbal meaning, and sets out to account for the variability and systematicity of argument structure realisation across verb types. It also proposes an interesting view of lexical insertion.
Author | : Annabel Cormack |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135671370 |
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The answer to the question "How can we understand and use a definition?" provides new constraints on natural language and on the internal language in which meaning is mentally represented. Most syntax takes the sentence as the basic unit for well-formedness, but definitions force us to focus on words and phrases, and hence to focus on compositional syntax in parallel with compositional semantics. This study examines both dictionary definitions and definitions from textbooks, from the points of view of their syntax, semantics, and use for learning word meaning. The tools used throughout are Principles and Parameters syntax, Relevance theoretic pragmatics, Model theoretic semantics, and the formal theory of definitions. The analyses argue that because phrases can be understood in isolation, some standard syntactic analyses must be modified. 'NP movement' has to be reanalysed as transmission of theta roles. These ideas are then applied to a variety of adjectives which take propositional complements. The final chapter argues that for definitions to be understood, the syntax of the Language of Thought must be close to that of Natural Language in specifiable way.