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Ellipsis in Comparatives

Author : Winfried Lechner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2004-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9783110197402
Pages : 294 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (974 downloads)

Download Ellipsis in Comparatives PDF Full Free by Winfried Lechner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generative analyses of comparatives traditionally include two construction specific ellipsis operations, Comparative Deletion and Comparative Ellipsis. Drawing from a wide array of new data, the present monograph develops a novel, directly semantically interpretable analysis of comparatives which does not require reference to designated deletion processes. On the one hand, Comparative Deletion is reinterpreted in terms of overt movement of the degree predicate. The resulting head-raising analysis contributes to an understanding of various puzzles for comparatives related to binding, locality and the influence of word-order variation on the interpretation and size of the ellipsis site. On the other hand, it is argued that Comparative Ellipsis can entirely be subsumed under standardly sanctioned ellipsis operations such as Gapping, Right Node Raising and Across-the-Board-movement. In addition, the study presents arguments for an ellipsis analysis of phrasal comparatives (such as Millhouse saw more movies than Bart). Empirical support for this conception derives, among others, from the complex interdependencies between ellipsis and serialization in English and German, and the binding properties of remnants inside the comparative complement. The study is directed towards readers interested in formal syntax and the syntax/semantics interface.

Ellipsis in Comparatives

Author : Winfried Lechner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 3119160245
Pages : 285 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (191 downloads)

Download Ellipsis in Comparatives PDF Full Free by Winfried Lechner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present monograph defends a new, semantically transparent account of the comparative construction, which incorporates novel analyses of various phenomena related to the complex interdependencies between word-order, ellipsis and interpretation. In particular, the study discusses the implications of two central hypotheses: (i) Comparative Deletion and Comparative Ellipsis do not represent construction specific operations, but can be subsumed under standardly sanctioned movement and deletion processes. (ii) Phrasal comparatives are not-base-generated, but derive from a clausal source.

The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis

Author : Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Release Date : 2019
ISBN 10 : 9780198712398
Pages : 1147 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (123 downloads)

Download The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis PDF Full Free by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 1147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Prosody in Syntactic Encoding

Author : Gerrit Kentner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-07-06
ISBN 10 : 9783110650532
Pages : 339 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (55 downloads)

Download Prosody in Syntactic Encoding PDF Full Free by Gerrit Kentner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit über 500 Bänden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse für die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft präsentieren, dass Fortschritt in der Erforschung der menschlichen Sprachen nur durch die enge Verbindung von empirischen und theoretischen Analysen sowohl diachron wie synchron möglich ist. Daher laden wir hochwertige linguistische Arbeiten aus allen zentralen Teilgebieten der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik ein, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten, neue Daten diskutieren und die Theorieentwicklung vorantreiben.

Type-Logical Syntax

Author : Yusuke Kubota
Publisher : MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
ISBN 10 : 9780262360791
Pages : 420 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (67 downloads)

Download Type-Logical Syntax PDF Full Free by Yusuke Kubota and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel logic-based framework for representing the syntax-semantics interface of natural language, applicable to a range of phenomena. In this book, Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine propose a type-logical version of categorial grammar as a viable alternative model of natural language syntax and semantics. They show that this novel logic-based framework is applicable to a range of phenomena--especially in the domains of coordination and ellipsis--that have proven problematic for traditional approaches.

Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences

Author : Katy Carlson
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
ISBN 10 : 9781136722882
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (228 downloads)

Download Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences PDF Full Free by Katy Carlson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This book investigates the processing of ellipsis sentences, focusing on the following questions: (i) are ellipsis sentences processed using special routines employed only for ellipsis or are they processed using the same principles needed for unelided sentences? (ii) does parallelism influence sentence processing? if so, what kinds of similarities matter?

The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus

Author : Maria Polinsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
ISBN 10 : 9780190690694
Pages : 1189 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (96 downloads)

Download The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus PDF Full Free by Maria Polinsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterized or exoticized, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. This handbook presents facts and descriptions of the languages written by experts. The first half of the book is an introduction to the languages, with the linguistic profiles enriched by demographic research about their speakers. It features overviews of the main language families as well as detailed grammatical descriptions of several individual languages. The second half of the book delves more deeply into theoretical analyses of features, such as agreement, ellipsis, and discourse properties, which are found in some languages of the Caucasus. Promising areas for future research are highlighted throughout the handbook, which will be of interest to linguists of all subfields.

The Interfaces

Author : Kerstin Schwabe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9027227845
Pages : 418 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (272 downloads)

Download The Interfaces PDF Full Free by Kerstin Schwabe and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these interfaces. As such, they not only make a valuable contribution to generative linguistic research but, more generally, help to deepen our understanding of the relation between form and meaning in natural language. In the book's introductory chapter, the editors address general issues related to current work on ellipsis and the syntax/semantics, syntax/phonology and syntax/discourse interfaces. The rest of the book is organized into three parts. The first examines PF-deletion accounts of elliptical structures; the second investigates these structures from the perspective of the syntax/semantic interface; and the third explores these from a perspective that concentrates on the relation between semantics and focus and discourse structure. Together the papers collected in this volume offer a convincing demonstration of the value of collaborative research on the 'interfaces'.

Negative Indefinites

Author : Doris Penka
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Theoretical
Release Date : 2011
ISBN 10 : 9780199567263
Pages : 282 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (672 downloads)

Download Negative Indefinites PDF Full Free by Doris Penka and published by Oxford Studies in Theoretical. This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation.In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express a single negation), split readings (in which negative and indefinite parts take scope independently of each other), and the limited distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian languages - Doris Penka considers data from a wide range of languages and reviews the mostrecent literature on the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites. Her book will interest all linguists working on negation in particular and the syntax-semantics interface more generally.

Approaches to Hungarian

Author : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-08-15
ISBN 10 : 9789027265531
Pages : 255 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (655 downloads)

Download Approaches to Hungarian PDF Full Free by Harry van der Hulst and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015). The contributions cover a wide range of topics and their significance in generative theorizing. The papers about morphosyntax focus on the formation of comparative clauses, the behavior of particle verbs, scope taking in deverbal nominal constructions, measure constructions, classifier constructions, the mass/count distinction as well as focus and quantifier scope. The papers about phonology investigate coexisting patterns of variation in vowel harmony, the representational account of vowel harmony and the nature of heteromorphemic vowel sequences. While the focus of the volume is on Hungarian, comparison is made with several other languages, such as English, German and Portuguese among others. The broad range of topics discussed in this volume will appeal both to scholars working on Hungarian and to a general audience of generative linguists.

The Core Language Engine

Author : Hiyan Alshawi
Publisher : MIT Press
Release Date : 1992
ISBN 10 : 0262011263
Pages : 356 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (62 downloads)

Download The Core Language Engine PDF Full Free by Hiyan Alshawi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Core Language Engine presents the theoretical and engineering advances embodied in one of the most comprehensive natural language processing systems designed to date. Recent research results from different areas of computational linguistics are integrated into a single elegant design with potential for application to tasks ranging from machine translation to information system interfaces. Bridging the gap between theoretical and implementation oriented literature, The Core Language Engine describes novel analyses and techniques developed by the contributors at SRI International's Cambridge Computer Science Research Centre. It spans topics that include a wide-coverage unification grammar for English syntax and semantics, context-dependent and contextually disambiguated logical form representations, interactive translation, efficient algorithms for parsing and generation, and mechanisms for quantifier scoping, reference resolution, and lexical acquisition. Hiyan Alshawi is Senior Computer Scientist at SRI International, Cambridge, England. Contents: Introduction to the CLE. Logical Forms. Categories and Rules. Unification Based Syntactic Analysis. Semantic Rules for English. Lexical Analysis. Syntactic and Semantic Processing. Quantifier Scoping. Sortal Restrictions. Resolving Quasi Logical Forms. Lexical Acquisition. The CLE in Application Development. Ellipsis, Comparatives, and Generation. Swedish-English QLF Translation.

Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb

Author : Johannes Hein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-06-22
ISBN 10 : 9783110635607
Pages : 524 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (356 downloads)

Download Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb PDF Full Free by Johannes Hein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit über 500 Bänden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse für die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft präsentieren, dass Fortschritt in der Erforschung der menschlichen Sprachen nur durch die enge Verbindung von empirischen und theoretischen Analysen sowohl diachron wie synchron möglich ist. Daher laden wir hochwertige linguistische Arbeiten aus allen zentralen Teilgebieten der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik ein, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten, neue Daten diskutieren und die Theorieentwicklung vorantreiben.

Deriving Coordinate Symmetries

Author : John R. te Velde
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2006-01-18
ISBN 10 : 9789027293725
Pages : 385 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (937 downloads)

Download Deriving Coordinate Symmetries PDF Full Free by John R. te Velde and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph proposes a minimalist, phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures, utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English, German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that all coordinate structures are symmetric to some degree (in contrast to parasitic gap and many verb phrase ellipsis constructions), and these symmetries, especially with ellipsis, allow syntactic derivations to utilize Copy and Match in interface with active memory for economizing with gaps and assuring clarity of interpretation. With derivations operating at the feature level, troublesome properties of coordinate structures such as cross-categorial and non-constituent coordination, violations of the Coordinate Structure Constraint, as well as coordinate ellipsis (Gapping, RNR, Left-Edge Ellipsis) are accounted for without separate mechanisms or conditions applicable only to coordinate structures. The proposal provides support for central assumptions about the structure of West Germanic.

The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis

Author : Lobke Aelbrecht
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9789027255327
Pages : 249 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (553 downloads)

Download The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis PDF Full Free by Lobke Aelbrecht and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur, and ellipsis i.e., sending part of the structure to PF for non-pronunciation occurs as soon as this checking relation is established. At that point, the ellipsis site becomes inaccessible for further syntactic operations. Consequently, this theory explains the limited extraction data displayed by Dutch modals complement ellipsis as well as British English "do" These ellipses allow subject extraction out of the ellipsis site, but not object extraction. The analysis also extends to phenomena that do not display such a restricted extraction, such as sluicing, VP ellipsis, and pseudogapping. Hence, this work is a step towards a unified analysis of ellipsis."

Artificial General Intelligence

Author : Jordi Bieger
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2015-07-14
ISBN 10 : 9783319213651
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (136 downloads)

Download Artificial General Intelligence PDF Full Free by Jordi Bieger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2015, held in Berlin, Germany in July 2015. The 41 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The AGI conference series has played and continues to play, a significant role in this resurgence of research on artificial intelligence in the deeper, original sense of the term of “artificial intelligence”. The conferences encourage interdisciplinary research based on different understandings of intelligence and exploring different approaches. AGI research differs from the ordinary AI research by stressing on the versatility and wholeness of intelligence and by carrying out the engineering practice according to an outline of a system comparable to the human mind in a certain sense.

The Syntax of Nonsententials

Author : Ljiljana Progovac
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2006-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9789027233578
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (335 downloads)

Download The Syntax of Nonsententials PDF Full Free by Ljiljana Progovac and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense, including structural Nominative Case. Arguably, the lack of Tense specification is also responsible for the dearth of indicative interpretations among nonsententials, as well as for their heavy reliance on pragmatic context. So pervasive is nonsentential speech across all groups, including normal adult speech, that a case can be made that continuity of grammar lies in nonsentential, rather than sentential speech.

Approaches to Hungarian

Author : Veronika Hegedűs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-04-08
ISBN 10 : 9789027261601
Pages : 241 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (616 downloads)

Download Approaches to Hungarian PDF Full Free by Veronika Hegedűs and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest, 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics, including comparisons with other languages (e.g., English, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish). Specifically, the phonetics and phonology papers present experimental and corpus studies of /h/ voicing, the acoustics of Hungarian word stress, and vowel harmony in harmonically mixed stems. The papers on syntax and semantics discuss object agreement and its locality restrictions, equative markers in German and Hungarian diachronically and synchronically, anaphoric possessor strategies and definite article distribution, and the semantics of various aspectual adverbs. Experimental studies of information structure examine the linear placement of textually given topical constituents post-verbally, exhaustivity inferences with focus partitioning in German, English and Hungarian, and contextual factors licensing Hungarian structural focus. The broad range of topics ensures that this volume will interest scholars of Hungarian and theoretical linguists more generally.

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