Found insideWhat do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Found inside4.1 Predicative construction -- 4.2 Emphatic construction -- 5 Summary -- 7 The cleft construction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous analyses -- 3 A dynamic analysis -- 4 Summary -- 8 Semantic underspecification: Cases of personal pronouns -- ... Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "advanced/optional content, hundreds of working examples, an active search facility, and live links to manuals, tutorials, compilers, and interpreters on the World Wide Web."--Page 4 of cover. Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely ... This book is of interest to scholars studying the interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics, particularly those working on negation and polarity. 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. Offering a compelling perspective on the structure of the human language, this book addresses the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. Found insideExploring the Korean language from both a syntactic and semantic perspective, this book provides an up-to-date linguistic analysis of its structure, combining Minimalist Syntax with accompanying compositional formal semantics. In Economy and Semantic Interpretation, Danny Fox investigates the relevance of principles of optimization (economy) to the interface between syntax and semantics. Found insideThese 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. Found insideThis book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. A completely new unit on non-literal language and metaphor, plus updates throughout the text significantly expand the scope of the original edition to bring it up-to-date with modern teaching of semantics for introductory courses in ... This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. This 2005 book surveys theories about the relationship between verbs and their arguments, an important research topic in linguistics. Found inside – Page 56In short , acceptance of the ternary analysis would require that we accept a significant weakening of the relation between syntax and argument structure , between syntax and semantics , and between argument structure and semantics . This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these contributions is the complex semantic and syntactic structure of PPs. The description of a verb in a natural language includes information of two types: semantic information, concerning what the verb will be taken to mean, and syntactic information, detailing the kinds of sentence structures in which the verb ... A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics. Found insideOffers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to a novel theory of syntax, which analyzes grammar from a semantic perspective. Found inside – Page iThis book is the first and so far only formally precise machinery converting well-motivated semantic sentence representations into actual sentences of English, French, German and Dutch. This text concerns the interpretation and structure of non-verbal predicates in copular sentences (i.e. sentences with the verb 'be'). This book looks at how syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in different ways across human languages. This book investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective of Optimality Theory. This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. Supplemental software is available on disk or via file transfer protocol. This book is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course on the formal syntax and semantics of programming languages. This book looks at the relationship between syntax and semantics, bringing together two seemingly unrelated hypotheses: that verbs do not require arguments, and that specifiers are not required by the grammar. 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. * Treats LISP as a language for commercial applications, not a language for academic AI concerns. This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. This is a collection of papers by leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics on how semantics and pragmatics embed into a larger theory of interpretation and also on the disputed territories between these ... All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Found insideThe book, which stepwise develops successively more powerful logical and grammatical systems, covers an unusually broad range of material. 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. Based upon graduate courses taught at Stanford University, this work seeks to redress this situation by building up syntactic and semantic aspects of grammatical theory in an integrated way from the start, under the assumption that neither ... This book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. Perfect for intermediate to advanced web and mobile web developers, this handy book lets you choose the HTML5 features that work for you—and helps you experiment with the rest. This volume incorporates exciting work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. Examining the syntax and semantics of discourse markers, this book employs a syntactic approach to describe discourse markers in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), relevant in a theory of discourse because it provides a framework ... Some of them will be waived, others com plemented. The papers of the present volume follow these general principles of linguistic theory though they may differ from each other in the way of presentation considerably. Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Clearly written and comprehensive, this book will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Found insideThis volume brings together recent research on the semantics and syntax of pseudo-incorporation, bringing into focus new empirical data from a wide array of languages, offering new formal analyses of the phenomenon and strengthening the ... This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field. Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic ... 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