Semantics: Noun phrase classes
Author: Javier GutiƩrrez-Rexach
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780415266352
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Author: Javier GutiƩrrez-Rexach
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780415266352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Portner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 3110589443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area.
Author: Martine Coene
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2003-07-17
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9027296561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis which takes noun phrases to be headed by a functional head D(eterminer). The major concerns can be grouped around 3 subthemes: the internal syntax of noun phrases, the syntax and semantics of bare nouns and indefinites and the expression of measurement in noun phrases. The wealth of data coming from over 40 different languages combined with a thorough introduction to the current issues in the field of NPs/DPs and some alternative syntactic and semantic analyses, provide a comprehensive reference work from both a descriptive and a theoretical point of view. The second volume is concerned exclusively with the expression of possession in noun phrases.
Author: W. H. Hirtle
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0773536043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Based on Guillaume's theory of the word,... proposes a word-based analysis of the mental operations involved in producing a noun phrase, starting with representing the speaker's message, then relating the words, and finishing with reference back to the message."--Bk. jkt.
Author: R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-09-16
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0199270937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book throws new light on the nature and classification of adjectives and redefines the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation.
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 3110822938
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Author: Georgia M. Green
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sebastian Loebner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1134647158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position. Understanding Semantics offers a complete introduction to linguistic semantics. The book takes a step-by-step approach, starting with the basic concepts and moving through the central questions to examine the methods and results of the science of linguistic meaning. Understanding Semantics unites the treatment of a broad scale of phenomena using data from different languages with a thorough investigation of major theoretical perspectives. It leads the reader from their intuitive knowledge of meaning to a deeper understanding of the use of scientific reasoning in the study of language as a communicative tool, of the nature of linguistic meaning, and of the scope and limitations of linguistic semantics. Ideal as a first textbook in semantics for undergraduate students of linguistics, this book is also recommended for students of literature, philosophy, psychology and cognitive science.
Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 3110207494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goal of this book is twofold. On the one hand we want to offer a discussion of some of the more important properties of the nominal projection, on the other hand we want to provide the reader with tools for syntactic analysis which apply to the structure of DP but which are also relevant for other domains of syntax. In order to achieve this dual goal we will discuss phenomena which are related to the nominal projection in relation to other syntactic phenomena (e.g. pro drop will be related to N-ellipsis, the classification of pronouns will be applied to the syntax of possessive pronouns, N-movement will be compared to V-movement, the syntax of the genitive construction will be related to that of predicate inversion etc.). In the various chapters we will show how recent theoretical proposals (distributed morphology, anti-symmetry, checking theory) can cast light on aspects of the syntax of the NP. When necessary, we will provide a brief introduction of these theoretical proposals. We will also indicate problems with these analyses, whether they be inherent to the theories as such (e.g. what is the trigger for movement in antisymmetric approaches) or to the particular instantiations. The book cannot and will not provide the definitive analysis of the syntax of noun phrases. We consider that this would not be possible, given the current flux in generative syntax, with many new theoretical proposals being developed and explored, but the book aims at giving the reader the tools with which to conduct research and to evaluate proposals in the literature. In the discussion of various issues, we will apply the framework that is most adequate to deal with problems at hand. We will therefore not necessarily use the same approach throughout the discussion. Though proposals in the literature will be referred to when relevant, we cannot attempt to provide a critical survey of the literature. We feel that such a survey would be guided too strongly by theoretical choices, which would not be compatible with the pedagogical purposes this book has. The book is comparative in its approach, and data from different languages will be examined, including English, German, Dutch (West-Flemish), Greek, Romance, Semitic, Slavic, Albanian, Hungarian, Gungbe.
Author: Colette Grinevald Craig
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9027228744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this conception has been challenged in different fields. By now prototype theory has established itself as one of the main approaches in linguistics. This volume brings classifier systems to the attention of cognitive psychologists dealing with the phenomenon of human categorization. For the general linguist it shows what can be learned from classifier systems into any theory on the nature of language organization, it will challenge some of the most entrenched notions in the field of linguistics, notions of what language is made of and how it functions.