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Quantification in the Theory of Grammar
Inbunden, 1990
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In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind. This book discusses various issues in syntax and logical …
Quantification in the Theory of Grammar
Häftad, 1990
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In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind. This book discusses various issues in syntax and logical …
Logical Structure and Linguistic Structure
Cross-linguistic Perspectives
Av C. T. James Huang, Robert May
Inbunden, 1991
1355 kr
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Bound and Referential Pronouns.- Logical Form and Barriers in Navajo.- Towards a Modular Theory of Coreference.- Head Government in LF-Representations.- Logical Structure in Syntactic Structure: The Case of Hungarian.- In Defense of the Correspondence Hypothesis: Island Effects and Parasitic …
Entities and Indices
Inbunden, 1990
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In ordinary discourse we appear to ta1k about many things that have seemed mysterious to philosophers. We say that there has been a hitch in our arrangements or that the solution to the problem required us to examine all the probable outcomes of our action. So it would seem that we speak as if in …
Entities and Indices
Häftad, 1990
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In ordinary discourse we appear to ta1k about many things that have seemed mysterious to philosophers. We say that there has been a hitch in our arrangements or that the solution to the problem required us to examine all the probable outcomes of our action. So it would seem that we speak as if in …
From Discourse to Logic
Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory
Häftad, 1993
879 kr
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Preface This book is about semantics and logic. More specifically, it is about the semantics and logic of natural language; and, even more specifically than that, it is about a particular way of dealing with those subjects, known as Discourse Representation Theory, or DRT. DRT is an approach …
Parameter of Aspect
Av C.S. Smith
Inbunden, 1991
2253 kr
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During the period I have been working on this project I have received institutional support of several kinds, for which I am most grateful. I thank the Institute for Advanced Study at Stanford University, and the Spencer Foundation, for a stimulating environment in which the basic idea of this book …
Principle-Based Parsing
Computation and Psycholinguistics
Av R. C. Berwick, S.P. Abney m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
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Structures for Semantics
Av Fred Landman
Inbunden, 1991
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Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable technical sophistica tion and acquaintance with quite advanced mathematical techniques and structures. But semantics isn't mathematics. These techniques and structures are tools …
Structures for Semantics
Av Fred Landman
Häftad, 1991
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Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable technical sophistica tion and acquaintance with quite advanced mathematical techniques and structures. But semantics isn't mathematics. These techniques and structures are tools …
Indian Philosophy of Language
Studies in Selected Issues
Inbunden, 1991
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What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition? As recently as twenty or thirty years ago this question simply would not have arisen. If a practitioner of analytic philosophy of language of that time had any view of Indian philosophy at all, it was most …
Purpose Clauses
Syntax, Thematics, and Semantics of English Purpose Constructions
Av C. Jones
Inbunden, 1991
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The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clauses, and they look and sound unremarkable. We hear and see these things all the time. John came [to play with the children] [to play with] I brought John along Insofar as purpose …
Logical Structure and Linguistic Structure
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Av C-T James Huang, Robert May
Häftad, 1992
569 kr
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In comparative syntax a general approach has been pursued over the past decade predicated on the notion that Universal Grammar allows of open parameters, and that part of the job of linguistic theory is to specify what values these parameters may have, and how they may be set, given primary …
Control and Grammar
Av R.K. Larson, S. Iatridou m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
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The articles in this volume grew from papers presented at the workshop on control held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1989. The work of the various authors comes at a moment in linguistic theory that is notable for two developments. First, there has been increasing involvement …
Semantics and the Lexicon
Inbunden, 1993
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This book integrates the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. Rarely do these two camps meet and discuss the demands and concerns of each other's fields. Therefore, the …
Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse
Inbunden, 1993
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Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to `bottom up, compositional' …
Semantics and The Lexicon
Häftad, 1993
569 kr
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The goal of this book is to integrate the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. Rarely do these two camps meet and discuss the demands and concerns of each other's …
From Discourse to Logic
Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory Part 1
Inbunden, 1993
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Preface This book is about semantics and logic. More specifically, it is about the semantics and logic of natural language; and, even more specifically than that, it is about a particular way of dealing with those subjects, known as Discourse Representation Theory, or DRT. DRT is an approach …
Language of Propositions and Events
Issues in the Syntax and the Semantics of Nominalization
Inbunden, 1993
1692 kr
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At a superficial examination, English has different types of nominals with similar meaning and distribution: (1)a. John's performance ofthe song b. J ohn' s performing of the song c. John's performing the song d. the fact that John performs the song These nominals are also perceived by English …
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Av Carol Tenny
Inbunden, 1994
1692 kr
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All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins in my 1987 dissertation. However, this work has grown …
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Av Carol Tenny
Häftad, 1994
1692 kr
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All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins in my 1987 dissertation. However, this work has grown …
Modality and Meaning
Av W.G. Lycan
Inbunden, 1994
1643 kr
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Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. "Worlds" themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this "Ersatzist" view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete …
Modality and Meaning
Av W.G. Lycan
Häftad, 1994
1643 kr
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Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete …
Quantification in Natural Languages
Av Emmon Bach, E. Jelinek m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
1067 kr
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This volume of papers grew out of a research project on "Cross-Linguistic Quantification" originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee in 1987 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS 871999. The publication also reflects …
Plurality, Conjunction and Events
Av P. Lasersohn
Inbunden, 1994
1692 kr
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Plurality, Conjunction and Events presents a novel theory of plural and conjoined phrases, in an event-based semantic framework. It begins by reviewing options for treating the alternation between `collective' and `distributive' readings of sentences containing plural or conjoined noun phrases, …
Quantification in Natural Languages
Volume I
Av Elke Bach, E. Jelinek m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
2127 kr
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This extended collection of papers is the result of putting recent ideas on quantification to work on a wide variety of languages. A central perspective of many of the papers follows the recognition of two broad types of quantificational strategies, one associated with nominal structures and …
Logic and Lexicon
The Semantics of the Indefinite
Inbunden, 1995
1692 kr
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Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the major theories of semantic indefiniteness, which have been proposed in …
Temporal Logic
From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence
Inbunden, 1995
1643 kr
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Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with the history of temporal logic as well as the crucial systematic questions within the field. The book studies the rich contributions from ancient and medieval philosophy up to the downfall of temporal logic in the Renaissance. …
Tense, Attitudes, and Scope
Av T. Ogihara
Inbunden, 1995
1130 kr
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Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book presents the view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to structurally higher expressions (the `relative tense theory') and argues against the view that tenses …
Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Inbunden, 1996
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Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of quantification. The results are then put to work in a novel approach to some of the …
