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Author: John Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1977-10-27
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780521291866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone who writes an up-to-date textbook of semantics has to be au fait with an extremely wide range of contemporary academic activity. John Lyons' new book demonstrates a remarkable ability to achieve such catholicity of expertise...
Author: John P. Kimball
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9004368809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C.T. James Huang
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1135217580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events.
Author: Peter Cole
Publisher: Syntax and Semantics
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9789004368514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John P. Kimball
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9004368825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Igor Mel’čuk
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9027271658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an innovative approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language is a mechanism for the expression of linguistic meanings as particular surface forms (texts). Semantics is that system of rules that ensures a transition from a Semantic Representation of the meaning of a family of synonymous sentences to the Deep-Syntactic Representation of a particular sentence. Framed in terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, this volume discusses the Deep-Syntactic Representation and the transition from Semantics to Deep-Syntax via Semantic paraphrasing (the equivalence amongst Semantic Representations), Deep-Syntactic paraphrasing (the equivalence amongst Deep-Syntactic Representations), and the passage between the two. A chapter is dedicated to the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary, a semantically based and co-occurrence-centered lexicon. Reflecting the author’s life-long dedication to semantics and syntax, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to language studies whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.
Author: John Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1977-10-27
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1316582191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, which can be read independently, deals with more specifically linguistic problems in semantics and contains substantial original material.
Author: Alexander Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-29
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0521190967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics. Engages foundational issues in both syntax and semantics, with attention to the correspondence between structure at the two levels. Chapters include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.
Author: Talmy Givón
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9781588110664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and pragmatic correlates of syntactic structure. With hindsight the author now finds the de-emphasis of the formal properties a somewhat regrettable choice, since it creates the false impression that one could somehow be a functionalist without being at the same time a structuralist. To redress the balance, explicit treatment is given to the core formal properties of syntactic constructions, such as constituency and hierarchy (phrase structure), grammatical relations and relational control, clause union, finiteness and governed constructions. At the same time, the cognitive and communicative underpinning of grammatical universals are further elucidated and underscored, and the interplay between grammar, cognition and neurology is outlined. Also the relevant typological database is expanded, now exploring in greater precision the bounds of syntactic diversity. Lastly, Syntax treats synchronic-typological diversity more explicitly as the dynamic by-product of diachronic development or grammaticalization. In so doing a parallel is drawn between linguistic diversity and diachrony on the one hand and biological diversity and evolution on the other. It is then suggested that as in biology synchronic universals of grammar are exercised and instantiated primarily as constraints on development, and are thus merely the apparent by-products of universal constraints on grammaticalization.
Author: S.-Y. Kuroda
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9401127891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. Two main themes connect the papers on Japanese syntax collected in this volume: movements of noun phrases and case marking, although each in turn relates to other issues in syntax and semantics. These two themes can be traced back to my 1965 MIT dissertation. The problem of the so-called topic marker wa is a perennial problem in Japanese linguistics. I devoted Chapter 2 of my dissertation to the problem of wa. My primary concern there was transformational genera tive syntax. I was interested in the light that Chomsky'S new theory could shed on the understanding of Japanese sentence structure. I generalized the problem of deriving wa-phrases to the problem of deriving phrases accompanied by the quantifier-like particles mo, demo, sae as well as wa. These particles, mo, demo and sae may roughly be equated with a/so, or something like it and even, respectively, and are grouped together with wa under the name of huku-zyosi as a subcategory of particles in Kokugogaku, Japanese scholarship on Japanese grammar. This taxonomy itself is a straightforward consequence of distributional analysis, and does not require the mechanisms of transformational grammar. My transformational analysis of wa, and by extension, that of the other huku zyosi, consisted in formally relating the function of the post-nominal use of wa to that of the post-predicative use by means of what I called an attachment transformation.
