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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Linguistics
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WCCFL 23
Vineeta Chand
Author : Vineeta Chand
Publisher :
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9781574730739
WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics contains 60 papers presented at the April 2004 conference at UC Davis. The papers focus on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and language development. The proceedings is available in paperback and library binding.
Parts of a Whole
Lucas Champollion
Author : Lucas Champollion
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191071218
This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't. For instance, why can we say I ran for five minutes but not *I ran all the way to the store for five minutes? Why is five pounds of books acceptable, but *five pounds of book not acceptable? What prevents us from saying *sixty degrees of water to express the temperature of the water in a swimming pool when sixty inches of water can express its depth? And why can we not say *all the ants in my kitchen are numerous? The constraints on these constructions involve concepts that are generally studied separately: aspect, plural and mass reference, measurement, and distributivity. In this book, Lucas Champollion provides a unified perspective on these domains, connects them formally within the framework of algebraic semantics and mereology, and uses this connection to transfer insights across unrelated bodies of literature and formulate a single constraint that explains each of the judgments above.
From Sounds to Structures
Roberto Petrosino
Author : Roberto Petrosino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501506633
The term ‘Maya’, in Indian traditions, refers to our sensory perception of the world and, as such, to a superficial reality (or ‘un–reality’) that we must look beyond to find the inner reality of things. Applied to the study of language, we perceive sounds, a superficial reality, and then we seek structures, the underlying reality in what we call phonology, morphology, and syntax. This volume starts with an introduction by the editors, which shows how the various papers contained in the volume reflect the spectrum of research interests of Andrea Calabrese, as well as his influence on the work of colleagues and his students. Contributors, united in their search for the abstract structures that underlie the appearances of languages include linguists such as Adriana Belletti, Paola Benincà, Jonathan Bobaljik, Gugliemo Cinque, David Embick, Mirko Grimaldi, Harry van der Hulst, Michael Kenstowicz, Maria Rita Manzini, Andrew Nevins, Elizabeth Pyatt, Luigi Rizzi, Leonardo Savoia, Laura Vanelli, Bert Vaux, Susi Wurmbrand, as well as a few junior researchers including Mariachiara Berizzi, Giuliano Bocci, Stefano Canalis, Silvio Cruschina, Irina Monich, Beata Moskal, Diego Pescarini, Joseph Perry, Roberto Petrosino, and Kobey Schwayder.
Cardinals
Tania Ionin
Author : Tania Ionin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262535785
An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition. In Cardinals, Tania Ionin and Ora Matushansky offer a semantic and syntactic analysis of nominal expressions containing complex cardinals (for example, two hundred and thirty-five books). They show that complex cardinals are not an extra-linguistic phenomenon (as is often assumed) but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition. Complex cardinals can tell us as much about syntactic structure and semantic composition as other linguistic expressions. Ionin and Matushansky show that their analysis accounts for the internal composition of cardinal-containing constructions cross-linguistically, providing examples from more than fifteen languages. They demonstrate that their proposal is compatible with a variety of related phenomena, including modified numerals, measure nouns, and fractions. Ionin and Matushansky show that a semantic or syntactic account that captures the behavior of a simplex cardinal (such as five) does not automatically transfer to a complex cardinal (such as five thousand and forty-six) and propose a compositional analysis of complex cardinals. They consider the lexical categories of simplex cardinals and their role in the construction of complex cardinals; examine in detail the numeral systems of selected languages, including Slavic and Semitic languages; discuss linguistic constructions that contain cardinals; address extra-linguistic conventions on the construction of complex cardinals; and, drawing on data from Modern Hebrew, Basque, Russian, and Dutch, show that modified numerals and partitives are compatible with their analysis.
Sentence and Discourse
Jacqueline Guéron
Author : Jacqueline Guéron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198739427
This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. Experts in the field make use of data from a variety of languages to examine the nature of these relations, where they come from, and how they apply.
Onsets
Nina Topintzi
Author : Nina Topintzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 113948611X
The concept of the 'onset', i.e. the consonant(s) before the vowel of a syllable, is critical within phonology. While phonologists have examined the segmental behaviour of onsets, their prosodic status has instead been largely overlooked. In fact, most previous accounts have stipulated that onsets are insignificant when it comes to the 'heaviness' of syllables. In this book Nina Topintzi presents a new theory of onsets, arguing for their fundamental role in the structure of language both in the underlying and surface representation, unlike previous assumptions. To capture the weight behaviour of onsets, a novel account is proposed that relates their interaction with voicing, tone and stress. Using numerous case-studies and data from a variety of languages and phenomena (including stress, compensatory lengthening, gemination and word minimality), the book introduces a model that reflects the true behaviour of onsets, demonstrating profound implications for syllable and weight theories.
The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics
Manuel Diaz-Campos
Author : Manuel Diaz-Campos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1119108918
This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics. Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguistics Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theory Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approaches, Spanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, and other topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the rich diversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain
The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect
Robert I. Binnick
Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0195381971
This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
C. T. James Huang
Author : C. T. James Huang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1119457076
The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics is the first comprehensive introduction to Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics. Containing twenty-five chapters, the book offers a balanced, accessible and thoughtfully organized introduction to some of the most important results of research into Chinese linguistics carried out by theoretical linguists during the last thirty years. Presenting critical overviews of a wide range of major topics, it is the first to meet the great demand for an overview volume on core areas of Chinese linguistics. Authoritative contributions describe and assess the major achievements and controversies of research undertaken in each area, and provide bibliographies for further reading. The contributors refer both to their own work in relevant fields, and objectively present a range of competitor theories and analyses, resulting in a volume that is fully comprehensive in its coverage of theoretical research into Chinese linguistics in recent years. This unique Handbook is suitable both as a primary reader for structured, taught courses on Chinese linguistics at university level, and for individual study by graduates and other professional linguists.