Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Title Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface PDF eBook
Author Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 344
Release 2005-07-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780521811798

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This book looks at how syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in different ways across human languages.

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.

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.

Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface

Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface
Title Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface PDF eBook
Author Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 512
Release 2008
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027205728

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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 categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advance the development of the theory, but also contribute to the broader theoretical discussion. In particular, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena such as transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese, and an unusual kind of complex sentence in Wari' (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not only illustrate the descriptive and explanatory power of the theory, but also present interesting challenges to other approaches. In addition, there are papers looking at the implications and applications of Role and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic research, parsing and automated text analysis.

Semantics - Interfaces

Semantics - Interfaces
Title Semantics - Interfaces PDF eBook
Author Claudia Maienborn
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 632
Release 2019-02-19
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110589842

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Explore the exciting research where semantics meets morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In this book, leading researchers use in-depth articles to explain a wide range of topics at these interfaces, including the semantics of intonation, inflection, compounding, argument structure, type shifting, compositionality, implicature, context dependence, deixis and presupposition. Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the highly cited material in this book is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in semantics where it crosses over with other dimensions of grammar.

Numeral Classifiers in Chinese

Numeral Classifiers in Chinese
Title Numeral Classifiers in Chinese PDF eBook
Author XuPing Li
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 326
Release 2013-08-29
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110289334

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This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The book is a contribution to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.

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.