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Author : Charles J. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Semantics
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Author : Eiichi Iwasaki
Publisher : 株式会社 三恵社
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 4864877297
The Syntax and Semantics of Comparative Correlatives: A Generative-Cognitive Language Design is a long awaited collection of the author's published articles and their revisions in an attempt to present a thorough and consistent analysis of the syntax and semantics of this most challenging construction. A must for anyone currently engaged in or considering writing about the Comparative Correlative.
Author : Julia Bacskai-Atkari
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2018
Category : English language
ISBN : 3961100837
This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The main focus of the book is on English, yet other languages are also discussed for comparative purposes, with the aim of showing what the idiosyncratic properties of English comparatives are.
Author : A. Butler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230501605
Split constructions are very widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a conceptual simplicity. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of syntax and semantics.
Author : Alastair Butler
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781403921123
Split constructions are widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit--namely, a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a conceptual simplicity. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of syntax and semantics.
Author : Hans Christian Boas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027204322
The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functioanl factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.
Author : Manny Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN :
"We describe a fairly comprehensive handling of the syntax and semantics of comparative constructions. The analysis is largely based on the theory developed by Pinkham, but we advance arguments to support a different handling of phrasal comparatives - in particular, we replace the use of C-ellipsis with a method of interpretation we call contrastive comparison. We explain the reasons for dividing comparative sentences into different categories, and for each category we give an example of the corresponding Montague semantics. The ideas have all been implemented within a large-scale grammar for Swedish, a "toy" version of which is presented, along with examples of the output."
Author : Christopher Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136532390
First Published in 1999. The main argument presented in this volume is that gradable adjectives like bright, dense and short denote measure functions- functions from objects to abstract representations of measurement, or scales and degrees. This proposal is shown to provide a foundation for principled explanations of a wide range of syntactic and semantic properties of gradable adjectives and the constructions in which they appear, ranging from the syntactic distribution of gradable adjectives to the scopal characteristics of comparatives and the empirical effects of adjectival polarity.
Author : Maria-Margarita Makri
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2018
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Author : Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527569691
This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka (Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia), Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.