Justification with Nominals
Justification with Nominals

Author: Alexander Kashev

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1326850652

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Inauguraldissertation an der Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Bern.

An Introduction to Syntax
An Introduction to Syntax

Author: Edith A. Moravcsik

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-05-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1441171754

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This comprehensive introduction to syntax explains the basic concepts of syntax, and how the structures which are in place for describing the world can also be applied to a description of language structure. Edith Moravcsik presents a detailed introduction to syntactic description, including linear order, selection, categories, meaning, sound form, variation and change. The final selection provides a summary which looks at how we can explain syntax. The book includes student-friendly features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, exercises, and a glossary of terms.

Punishment, Compensation, and Law
Punishment, Compensation, and Law

Author: Mark R. Reiff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-07-11

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781139446211

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the meaning and measure of enforceability. While we have long debated what restraints should govern the conduct of our social life, we have paid relatively little attention to the question of what it means to make a restraint enforceable. Focusing on the enforceability of legal rights but also addressing the enforceability of moral rights and social conventions, Mark Reiff explains how we use punishment and compensation to make restraints operative in the world. After describing the various means by which restraints may be enforced, Reiff explains how the sufficiency of enforcement can be measured, and he presents a unified theory of deterrence, retribution, and compensation that shows how these aspects of enforceability are interconnected. Reiff then applies his theory of enforceability to illuminate a variety of real-world problem situations.

Justification and the Truth-Connection
Justification and the Truth-Connection

Author: Clayton Littlejohn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1107016126

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Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.

Essays on Nominal Determination
Essays on Nominal Determination

Author: Henrik Høeg Müller

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9027231109

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This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five main areas of concern: the conceptual level of determination; the emergence and function of articles; their semantic contribution to nominal interpretation; the morphology and syntax of determiners; and the interplay and contrasts between articles, demonstratives and possessives. Thus, linguistic and philosophical issues in the subject field of nominal determination are addressed at all interface levels between morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This volume shows that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together in the effort to formulate new analyses of well-known problems, but also to raise new questions and point to new areas which may prove interesting topics for future research both in functional and formal paradigms.

The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks
The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

Author: Artemis Alexiadou

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-09-22

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3110245876

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The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discussing the syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations. The volume investigates the morpholgy-syntax interface as well as the semantics-syntax interface in the domain of nominalizations. The theoretical frameworks include distributed morphology, and minimalist syntax. Data from a variety of languages are taken into consideration, e.g. Hebrew, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Spanish, German and English.