[PDF] Animacy And Reference eBook

Author : Mutsumi Yamamoto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230498

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The concept of 'animacy' concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like. In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy, and secondly, to explain how the concept of animacy can be reflected in the use of referential expressions. Unlike previous studies on the subject focussing on grammatical manifestations, Animacy and Reference sheds light upon the conceptual properties of animacy itself and its reflection in referential processes. For the research of this study the author focussed on languages that show completely different tendencies. As a result, English and Japanese 'parallel corpora' are analysed yielding salient observations and opening intriguing discussions.

Author : Seppo Kittilä
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027206805

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The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what is case, how do cases develop and what are the functional differences between cases and adpositions? The chapters deal with a variety of different languages including Uralic languages, Indo-European languages, Basque, Korean and Vaeakau-Taumako. The book is appealing to anyone interested in case, animacy and/or semantic roles.

Author : Thorstein Fretheim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1996-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027282692

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The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker’s intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in which general principles of utterance interpretation constrain possible interpretations of referring expressions. The collection arises from a workshop on reference and referent accessibility which was held at the 4th International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993.

Author : Mel Y. Chen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822352729

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Rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness

Author : Thorstein Fretheim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027250502

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The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker's intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in which general principles of utterance interpretation constrain possible interpretations of referring expressions. The collection arises from a workshop on reference and referent accessibility which was held at the 4th International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993.

Author : Simeon Floyd
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027265542

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Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative sentences. This person sensitivity reflects the fact that speakers generally know most about their own affairs, while in questions this epistemic authority typically shifts to the addressee. First described for Tibeto-Burman languages, egophoric-like patterns have now been documented in a number of other regions around the world, including languages of Western China, the Andean region of South America, the Caucasus, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere. This book is a first attempt to place detailed descriptions of this understudied grammatical category side by side and to add to the cross-linguistic picture of how ideas of self and other are encoded and projected in language. The diverse but conceptually related egophoric phenomena described in its chapters provide fascinating case studies for how structural patterns in morphosyntax are forged under intersubjective, interactional pressures as we link elements of our speech to our speech situation.

Author : Shigeko Nariyama
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230768

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Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Author : Ellen Contini-Morava
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236890

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The essays in this volume explore the relationship between lexical and grammatical categories, calling into question the strict dichotomy between the two that is sometimes assumed.

Author : Lindsay J. Whaley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803959637

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Ideal in introductory courses dealing with grammatical structure and linguistic analysis, Introduction to Typology overviews the major grammatical categories and constructions in the world's languages. Framed in a typological perspective, the constant concern of this primary text is to underscore the similarities and differences which underlie the vast array of human languages.

Author : Petr Sojka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642157599

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2010, held in Brno, Czech Republic, September 2010. The 71 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to text corpora and tagging, transcription problems in spoken corpora, sense disambiguation, links between text and speech oriented systems, parsing issues, multi-lingual issues, information retrieval and information extraction, text/topic summarization, machine translation, semantic web, speech modeling, speech recognition, search in speech for IR and IE, text-to-speech synthesis, emotions and personality modeling, user modeling, knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems, assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue, applied systems and software, facial animation, as well as visual speech synthesis.