[PDF] Existence Semantics And Syntax eBook

Author : Ileana Comorovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2008-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402061986

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This collection of essays grew out of the workshop ‘Existence: Semantics and Syntax’, which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002. The workshop, organized by Ileana Comorovski and Claire Gardent, was supported by a grant from the Reseau ́ de Sciences Cognitives du Grand Est (‘Cognitive Science Network of the Greater East’), which is gratefully acknowledged. The ?rst e- tor wishes to thank Claire Gardent, Fred Landman, and Georges Rebuschi for encouraging her to pursue the publication of a volume based on papers presented at the workshop. Among those who participated in the workshop was Klaus von Heusinger, who joined Ileana Comorovski in editing this volume. Besides papers that developed out of presentations at the workshop, the volume contains invited contributions. We are grateful to Wayles Browne, Fred Landman, Paul Portner, and Georges Rebuschi for their help with reviewing some of the papers. Our thanks go also to a Springer reviewer for the careful reading of the book manuscript. We wish to thank all the participants in the workshop, not only those whose contributions appear in this volume, for making the workshop an int- active and constructive event. Ileana Comorovski Klaus von Heusinger vii ILEANA COMOROVSKI AND KLAUS VON HEUSINGER INTRODUCTION The notion of ‘existence’, which we take to have solid intuitive grounding, plays a central role in the interpretation of at least three types of linguistic constructions: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)de?nite noun phrases.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112316002

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Author : Eric J. Reuland
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262181266

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The Representation of(In)definiteness collects the most important current research, reflecting a wide range of approaches, on a central theoretical issue in linguistics: characterizing the distinction between definite and indefinite expressions. The authors of these 11 original essays, which draw on current work in theoretical syntax and semantics, were charged by the editors to take more than usual heed of alternative analyses offered by other theories, thereby promoting cross fertilization of syntactic and semantic ideas, concepts, and argumentation. The project as a whole is grounded in the belief that explicit comparison of seemingly incompatible approaches is essential to improve our understanding of the nature and structure of natural language. Eric J. Reuland and Alice ter Meulen are Professors of Linguistics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the University of Washington respectively. The Representation of (In)definiteness is fourteenth in the series Current Studies in Linguistics, edited by Samuel Jay Keyser.

Author : Noah Horwitz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2017-04-02
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ISBN : 9781545045473

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If the old existentialism said that existence precedes essence, the new existentialism articulated by The Syntax of the Real says that syntax precedes semantics. As opposed to the history of philosophy, which has been dominated semantico-centric ontologies, The Syntax of Real endeavors to articulate (perhaps the first) syntactic ontology. One of the most important theses of our time was articulated by the late John Haugeland. This thesis states that if you take care of the syntax, the semantics come for free. While Haugeland understood this thesis as one intervening in philosophy of mind and relating to the nature of artificial intelligence, The Syntax of Real both critiques of Haugeland's understand of his own thesis and articulates its actual ontological implications beyond its relevance to the nature of the mental. Our understanding of syntax must be broadened beyond the linguistic determination of this term if we are to grasp the nature of the real. After detailing the inherent problems of semantic ontologies, this manuscript deduces the very nature of the real from the point of departure of all post-Cartesian thought-the cogito. Semantic nihilism is not advocated. Rather as opposed to other theories of the semantic, a theory of operational semantics is elucidated. The Syntax of the Real articulates its vision both via engagement with well-known philosophers (for instance, the neo-Meinongian theories of the wunderkinder of contemporary European Philosophy, Markus Gabriel and Tristan Garcia, are subjected to critique) as well as pop culture (for example, an episode of the original Star Trek is analyzed and an engagement with the recent film Arrival makes up the conclusion). Warning: This text is not an attempt to articulate or analyze the obscurantist onto-babble of Francois Laruelle. Its orientation, if anything, is Lacanian. Table of Contents �1. Beyond the Semantico-centrism of Philosophy: Towards a Syntactic Ontology �2. If You Get the Syntax Right, the Semantics Come for Free �3. Syntax from the Perspective of Linguistics �4. Semantico-centrism in Linguistics �5. The Primacy of the Syntactic �6. Semanticist Ontology �7. The Problems with Semanticism �8. The Computational Theory of Mind �9. Fodor's Mistaken Guide to the Mind �10. The Actuality of Thought: From Criticisms of the Computational Theory of Mind to Existence in Itself �11. Where It Thinks, I Am Not: Deducing the Syntax of the Real �12. The Syntax of the Real �13. The Misadventures of Captain Obvious: John Searle, the Current Balding King of Semanticism �14. Deconstruction is the Deconstruction of Semantics �15. Structural Semantics �16. Operational Semantics �17. The Implications of Hegelian Anti-Platonism: Dialectical Semanticism �18. The Failure of Hegelian Anti-Pythagoreanism �19. Tzimtzum �20. Bidding Adieu to Badiou: A Critique of the Ontology of the Event �21. Fields of Semantic Sense: The Wunderkind Returns Us to Semanticism �22. Neo-Meinongianism �23. The Return of the Bishop: Berkeleyianism Today �24. Not Even Nietzscheanism is Dead �25. Nominalism �26. The Truth of Saussure �27. On the Origins of Language �28. The Arrival of the Brain Code

Author : Beth Levin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 1994-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262620944

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Besides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax. Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over the last fifteen years. Besides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax. Perlmutter's Unaccusative Hypothesis proposes that there are two classes of intransitive verbs - unergatives and unaccusatives - each associated with a distinct syntactic configuration. Unaccusativity begins by isolating the semantic factors that determine whether a verb will be unaccusative or unergative through a careful examination of the behavior of intransitive verbs from a range of semantic classes in diverse syntactic constructions. Notable are the extensive discussions of verbs of motion, verbs of emission, and various types of verbs of change of state. The authors then introduce rules that determine the syntactic expression of the arguments of the verbs investigated and examine the interactions among them. The proper treatment of verbs that systematically show multiple meanings - and hence variable classification as unaccusative or unergative - is also considered. In the final chapter, the authors argue that the distribution of locative inversion, a purported unaccusative diagnostic, is determined instead by discourse considerations. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 26

Author : Michael Lumsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317933710

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What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.

Author : Michael Lumsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317933702

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What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.