Author: Patricia Cabredo HofherrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 7
Author: Patricia Cabredo HofherrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics
Author: Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 4
Author: Claire BeyssadePublisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN: 9782840502890
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 6
Author: Olivier BonamiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics
Author: Empirical issues in formal syntax and semantics
Author: Francis CorblinEmpirical issues in formal syntax and semantics
Author: The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis
Author: Jeroen van CraenenbroeckPublisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 0198712391
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1147
Book Description
This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis, a phenomena whereby expressions in natural language appear to be incomplete but are still understood. It explores fundamental questions about the workings of grammar and provides detailed case studies of inter- and intralinguistic variation.
Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond
Author: Mojmír DočekalPublisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961103143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The goal of this collective monograph is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of number and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language with a special focus on Slavic. The book aims at investigating different morphosyntactic and semantic categories including plurality and number-marking, individuation and countability, cumulativity, distributivity and collectivity, numerals, numeral modifiers and classifiers, as well as other quantifiers. It gathers 19 contributions tackling the main themes from different theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to contribute to our understanding of cross-linguistic patterns both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages.
The Expression of Negation
Author: Laurence R. HornPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110219301
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the capacity to deny, to contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to convey irony. The apparent simplicity of logical negation as a one-place operator that toggles truth and falsity belies the intricate complexity of the expression of negation in natural language. Not only do we find negative adverbs, verbs, copulas, quantifiers, and affixes, but the interaction of negation with other operators (including multiple iterations of negation itself) can be exceedingly complex to describe, extending (as first detailed by Otto Jespersen) to negative concord, negative incorporation, and the widespread occurrence of negative polarity items whose distribution is subject to principles of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters in this book survey the patterning of negative utterances in natural languages, spanning such foundational issues as how negative sentences are realized cross-linguistically and how that realization tends to change over time, how negation is acquired by children, how it is processed by adults, and how its expression changes over time. Specific chapters offer focused empirical studies of negative polarity, pleonastic negation, and negative/quantifier scope interaction, as well as detailed examinations of the form and function of sentential negation in modern Romance languages and Classical Japanese.