Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Title Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface PDF eBook
Author Jens Fleischhauer
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 372
Release 2016-09-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110720299

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The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Title Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface PDF eBook
Author Robert D. van Valin, Jr.
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 336
Release 2005-07-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9781139445375

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Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. This book looks in detail at how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Working within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), Van Valin proposes a set of rules, called the 'linking algorithm', which relates syntactic and semantic representations to each other, with discourse-pragmatics playing a role in the linking. Using this model, he discusses the full range of grammatical phenomena, including the structures of simple and complex sentences, verb and argument structure, voice, reflexivization and extraction restrictions. Clearly written and comprehensive, this book will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery
Title The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery PDF eBook
Author Horst Lohnstein
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 532
Release 2012-04-17
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110912112

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The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades. Closer examination of its properties unfolds a rich array of perspectives like the status of barriers for extraction and government, the articulation of the topic focus structure, the fixation of wh-scope, the marking of clausal types, the interaction of syntactic structure with inflectional morphology as well as the determination of sentence mood and illocutionary force to mention just a few. The purpose of this book is to collect different and relevant studies in this field and to give a general overview of the various theoretical approaches concerned with morphological, syntactic and semantic properties together with the diachronic development of the left periphery.

The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks
Title The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks PDF eBook
Author Monika Rathert
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 263
Release 2010-08-31
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110226545

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The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.

The Unaccusativity Puzzle

The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Title The Unaccusativity Puzzle PDF eBook
Author Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 388
Release 2004
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780199257652

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The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.

Events and Predication

Events and Predication
Title Events and Predication PDF eBook
Author Montserrat Sanz
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 234
Release 2000-01-01
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 902723714X

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Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that "Aktionsart" plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The mapping between event and syntactic predicate types, including detransitives, is given a minimalist account based on the functional categories that embed event features and on a careful analysis of the features checked by objects. As the book delves into the theoretical issue of how parameters are characterized, it presents the most comprehensive account to date of event type phenomena in Spanish, an innovative analysis of the clitic "SE" and a re-definition of unaccusativity. The theory is then applied to the ongoing issues in the sentence processing literature. A proposal is made for an update of the current data in light of these latest linguistic discoveries.

Exploring Interfaces

Exploring Interfaces
Title Exploring Interfaces PDF eBook
Author Mónica Cabrera
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 319
Release 2019-08-22
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1108488277

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An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.