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Author |
: Johan Van Der Auwera |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2014-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317933465 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131793346X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Semantics of Determiners (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by : Johan Van Der Auwera
This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers. In the spirit of pluralism, there is no single paradigm unifying all the papers, rather, the volume reflects elements of the Extended Standard Theory, Generative Semantics, Montague Grammar, (Gricean) Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory.
Author |
: Johan Van Der Auwera |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2014-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317933472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317933478 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Semantics of Determiners (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by : Johan Van Der Auwera
This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers. In the spirit of pluralism, there is no single paradigm unifying all the papers, rather, the volume reflects elements of the Extended Standard Theory, Generative Semantics, Montague Grammar, (Gricean) Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory.
Author |
: Jila Ghomeshi |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2009-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027288950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 902728895X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Determiners by : Jila Ghomeshi
This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are variable? In recent theorizing, much of language variation is argued to stem from differences in the properties of features associated with functional heads. As such, this volume can be viewed as a case study of one such category: the determiner (D). The contributions all investigate the status of D as a language universal by examining the language-specific syntactic and semantic properties associated with this category. This volume will appeal to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, as well as to those who have more a specific interest in determiners and noun phrases.
Author |
: Michel Aurnague & Laure Vieu |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3110136341 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783110136340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Semantics of Prepositions by : Michel Aurnague & Laure Vieu
The majority of the papers in this volume were presented at a workshop on the semantics of prepositions held at the Institut für Angewandte Informationsforschung in February 1990. The broader topic is the conceptualization of space. The papers bring together different approaches to the mental process of interpreting prepositions, in particular, the computational processing of prepositions as predications of different cognitive domains. While no one presentation can claim to be exhaustive, it is hoped that the insights contained will inspire future discussions within cognitive linguistics.
Author |
: Routledge |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-11-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415717027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415717021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics Mini-Set B: Grammar by : Routledge
RLE: Linguistics Mini-set B has brought together a collection of essential Grammar titles, ranging from Basic Word Order to Existential Sentences, from The Pragmatics of Style to The Semantics of Determiners. These books, some long out of print, form a classic collection by some of the world's leading linguists.
Author |
: Jack Hoeksema |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2014-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317933731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317933737 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Categorial Morphology (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by : Jack Hoeksema
This book presents an account of certain problems of morphological analysis that occurs within a theoretical framework that derives its inspiration from recent studies of the lexicon in generative grammar. The starting point is the controversy about the proper analysis of synthetic compounds. Are they really compounds, or phrasal derivations, or do they constitute a type of word formation of their own?
Author |
: Frank Brisard |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2009-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027289186 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027289182 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics by : Frank Brisard
The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in which particular sense a variety of older and more recent functional (rather than generative) models of grammar relate to the study of language in use: how this affects their general outlook on language structure, whether issues of language use inform the very makeup of these models or are merely included as possible research themes, and how far the actual integration of pragmatics ultimately goes (is it a module/layer or is the model truly “usage-based”?). Each of the authors presenting these models has taken systematic care to highlight the relevant problems and focus on the implications of considering pragmatic phenomena from the point of view of grammar. Furthermore, a limited number of chapters deal with traditional topics in the grammatical literature, and specifically those which are called pragmatic because they either are not strictly concerned with truth (semantics), or receive their (truth) value only from an interaction with context. In the introduction, these theories and topics are set up against the historical background of a gradually changing attitude, on the part of grammarians, towards questions of linguistic knowledge and behavior, and the role of learning in their relationship.
Author |
: Anna Wierzbicka |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 632 |
Release |
: 1988-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027230195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027230196 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Semantics of Grammar by : Anna Wierzbicka
"The semantics of grammar" presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither "autonomous" nor "arbitrary," but that it follows from "semantics." It is shown that every grammatical construction encodes a certain semantic structure, which can be revealed and rigorously stated, so that the meanings encoded in grammar can be compared in a precise and illuminating way, within one language and across language boundaries. The author develops a semantic metalanguage based on lexical universals or near-universals (and, ultimately, on a system of universal semantic primitives), and shows that the same semantic metalanguage can be used for explicating lexical, grammatical and pragmatic aspects of language and thus offers a method for an integrated linguistic description based on semantic foundations. Analyzing data from a number of different languages (including English, Russian and Japanese) the author explores the notion of ethnosyntax and, via semantics, links syntax and morphology with culture. She attemps to demonstrate that the use of a semantic metalanguage based on lexical universals makes it possible to rephrase the Humboldt-Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in such a way that it can be tested and treated as a program for empirical research.
Author |
: Sebastian Loebner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2014-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134647156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134647158 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Semantics by : Sebastian Loebner
This 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 |
: Paul H. Portner |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780470758182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 047075818X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Formal Semantics by : Paul H. Portner
Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.