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    Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis (2015)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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    ISBN: 9783662452585
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 213 p. 60 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Speech prosody in speech synthesis: modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis
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    Keywords: Phonology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Phonology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Prosodie ; Automatische Sprachproduktion
    Abstract: The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style. Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.
    Description / Table of Contents: Modeling of ProsodyProZed: A speech prosody editor for linguists, using analysis-by-synthesis -- On degree of freedom in prosody modeling -- Extraction, analysis and synthesis of Fujisaki model parameters -- Probabilistic modeling of pitch contours towards prosody synthesis and conversion -- Para- and non-linguistic issues of prosody -- Communicative speech synthesis as pan-linguistic prosody control -- Mandarin stress analysis and prediction for speech synthesis -- Expressivity in interactive speech synthesis; some para-linguistic and non-linguistic issues of speech prosody for conversational dialogue systems -- Temporally variable multi-attribute morphing of arbitrarily many voices for exploratory research of speech prosody -- Control of prosody in speech synthesis -- Statistical models for dealing with discontinuity of fundamental frequency -- Use of generation process model for improved control of fundamental frequency contours in HMM-based speech synthesis -- Tone Nucleus Model for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis -- Emphasis, word prominence, and continuous wavelet transform in the control of HMM based synthesis -- Exploiting alternatives for text-to-speech synthesis: from machine to human -- Prosody control and variation enhancement techniques for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45258-5
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    Semantics of Complex Words (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    ISBN: 9783319141022
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 319 p. 42 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in Morphology 3
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Semantics of complex words
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    ET 450
    Keywords: Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Syntax ; Wortbildung ; Bedeutung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Semasiologie ; Wortbildung ; Bedeutung
    Abstract: This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionSemantics, Concepts, and Meta-Cognition: Attributing Properties and Meanings to Complex Concepts -- The Interface of Semantic Interpretation and Inflectional Realization -- The Role of Second Order Schemas in the Construction of Complex Words -- Sense Inheritance in English Word-Formation -- Word-Formation Strategies: Semantic Transparency vs. Formal Economy -- Lexeme Formation in a Conscious Approach to The Lexicon -- Remarks on Tautology in Word-Formation -- Form and Meaning of Bahuvrihi Compounds: Evidence from Modern Greek and its Dialects -- Transpositions and the Limits of Word Formation -- Structural Sensitivity as an Argument for Underspecification -- Stacking as a Reflex and Indicator of (Proto-)Typical Selectional Restrictions -- Thoughts on Morphology and Cultural Evolution -- Predicting the Semantics of English Nominalizations: A Frame-Based Analysis of -ment Suffixation.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14102-2
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    Elements of structural syntax (2015)
    Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company
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    ISBN: 9789027269997 , 9027269998 , 9789027212122 , 9027212120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (lxxxii, 698 Seiten)
    Uniform Title: Éléments de syntaxe structurale
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tesnière, Lucien, 1893 - 1954 Elements of structural syntax
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Structural linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Structural linguistics ; Strukturelle Syntax
    Abstract: Ch. 107 Variation in the number of actants -- ch. 108 The causative diathesis, the new actant -- ch. 109 Causative and passive -- ch. 110 Causative and reflexive in French -- ch. 111 New valency -- ch. 112 Analytical markers of new valency -- ch. 113 Synthetic markers of new valency -- ch. 114 New valency with a zero marker -- ch. 115 The recessive diathesis with a reflexive marker -- ch. 116 The recessive diathesis with a passive marker -- ch. 117 The recessive diathesis with a zero marker -- ch. 118 Different degrees of the recessive -- ch. 119 Causative and recessive in French -- Book E Metataxis -- ch. 120 Metataxis -- ch. 121 Simple metataxis -- ch. 122 Inversion of actants -- ch. 123 Double inversion of actants -- ch. 124 Inversion of actants and circumstants -- ch. 125 Metataxis and the passive -- ch. 126 Metataxis and causatives -- ch. 127 Metataxis and anti-causative -- ch. 128 Semantic reversal of nodes connected vertically -- ch. 129 Change of the structural center -- ch. 130 Resultative adverbs
    Abstract: Ch. 131 Movement and displacement -- ch. 132 Change of the structural center via subordination -- ch. 133 Parataxis and hypotaxis -- ch. 134 Complications of the simple sentence -- ch. 135 Duplication and junction -- ch. 136 Graphic representations -- ch. 137 Junction without a junctive -- ch. 138 Linear varieties of junctives -- ch. 139 Semantic varieties of junctives -- ch. 140 Antinomic junctives -- ch. 141 Dialectic junctives -- ch. 142 Justificational junctives -- ch. 143 Structural variety of junction -- ch. 144 Plexus -- ch. 145 Bifid sentences -- ch. 146 Double bifidity -- ch. 147 Sentences with comparison -- ch. 148 Sentences with a comparative -- ch. 149 Anaphoric junction -- ch. 150 Connective junction -- Book A Introduction -- I. Theory -- ch. 151 The theory of transfer -- ch. 152 The mechanism of transfer -- ch. 153 The role and importance of transfer -- ch. 154 The terminology of transfer -- ch. 155 The graphic representation of transfer -- ch. 156 Transfer in stemmas -- ch. 157 Translative and nucleus
    Abstract: Ch. 158 The life and evolution of transfer -- ch. 159 The survival of transfer -- ch. 160 Markers of transfer -- ch. 161 The agglutination of translatives -- ch. 162 Transfer without a marker -- ch. 163 Transfer and linguists -- II. Varieties -- ch. 164 Varieties of transfer in stemmas -- ch. 165 Nuclear varieties of transfer -- ch. 166 Formal transfer -- ch. 167 Categorical varieties of transfer -- ch. 168 Attenuated transfer -- ch. 169 Indices -- ch. 170 The auxiliary verb -- ch. 171 Empty preverbs -- ch. 172 Functional varieties of transfer -- ch. 173 Semantic varieties of transfer -- ch. 174 Derivation -- ch. 175 Composition -- III. Classification -- ch. 176 Classification of the facts of transfer -- Book B First-degree transfer, simple transfer -- ch. 177 Transfer of a specific adjective to a noun (A〉 O) -- ch. 178 Transfer of a general adjective to a noun (A〉 O) -- ch. 179 Transfer of an adverb to a noun (E〉 O) -- ch. 180 The infinitive -- ch. 181 The evolution of the infinitive -- ch. 182 The infinitive clause
    Abstract: Ch. 183 Inferior connections to the infinitive -- ch. 184 Superior connections of the infinitive -- ch. 185 Infinitives and diathesis -- ch. 186 Infinitives and mood -- ch. 187 Infinitives and temporal categories -- ch. 188 Infinitive and person -- ch. 189 Infinitives and number -- ch. 190 Infinitives and extension -- ch. 191 I〉 O transfer without an infinitive -- ch. 192 Transfer of a noun to a descriptive adjective (O〉 A) -- ch. 193 Transfer of a noun to an adjective of color or material -- ch. 194 Transfer of a noun to an adjective (O〉 A) -- ch. 195 Transfer of a noun to an adjective of quiddity -- ch. 196 Inverse sustantival and adjectival transfer -- ch. 197 Transfer of an adverb to an adjective (E〉 A) -- ch. 198 The participle -- ch. 199 The participle clause -- ch. 200 Evolution of the participle -- ch. 201 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O〉 E) -- ch. 202 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O〉 E) by case -- ch. 203 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O〉 E) without a marker -- ch. 204 Transvaluation -- ch. 205 Transfer of an adjective to an adverb (A〉 E)
    Abstract: Ch. 183 Inferior connections to the infinitive -- ch. 184 Superior connections of the infinitive -- ch. 185 Infinitives and diathesis -- ch. 186 Infinitives and mood -- ch. 187 Infinitives and temporal categories -- ch. 188 Infinitive and person -- ch. 189 Infinitives and number -- ch. 190 Infinitives and extension -- ch. 191 I〉 O transfer without an infinitive -- ch. 192 Transfer of a noun to a descriptive adjective (O〉 A) -- ch. 193 Transfer of a noun to an adjective of color or material -- ch. 194 Transfer of a noun to an adjective (O〉 A) -- ch. 195 Transfer of a noun to an adjective of quiddity -- ch. 196 Inverse sustantival and adjectival transfer -- ch. 197 Transfer of an adverb to an adjective (E〉 A) -- ch. 198 The participle -- ch. 199 The participle clause -- ch. 200 Evolution of the participle -- ch. 201 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O〉 E) -- ch. 202 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O〉 E) by case -- ch. 203 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O〉 E) without a marker -- ch. 204 Transvaluation -- ch. 205 Transfer of an adjective to an adverb (A〉 E)
    Abstract: Ch. 236 Quintuple transfer -- ch. 237 Sextuple transfer -- ch. 238 Septuple transfer -- Book D Second degree transfer, simple transfer -- ch. 239 Second degree transfer -- ch. 240 Correlation -- ch. 241 I〉〉 O transfer -- ch. 242 The marker of I〉〉 O transfer -- ch. 243 Connective indirect interrogatives -- ch. 244 Nuclear indirect interrogatives -- ch. 245 I〉〉 A transfer -- ch. 246 The marker of I〉〉 A transfer -- ch. 247 The translative element of the personal pronoun -- ch. 248 The anaphoric element in the personal pronoun -- ch. 249 Agreement of the anaphoric element -- ch. 250 Disjunction of the translative and anaphoric element -- ch. 251 Syntactic disjunction of the agglutinated relative pronoun -- ch. 252 The antecedent of the relative clause -- ch. 253 Participle agreement -- ch. 254 I〉〉 E transfer -- ch. 255 Circumstantials of time and place
    Abstract: Ch. 24 Categories -- ch. 25 Categories and functions -- ch. 26 Static and dynamic order -- V. Types of words -- ch. 27 Traditional types of words -- ch. 28 Full and empty words -- ch. 29 Constitutive and subsidiary words -- ch. 30 Variable and invariable words -- ch. 31 Full words -- ch. 32 Types of full words -- ch. 33 Symbols and the virtual sentence -- ch. 34 The noun -- ch. 35 The adjective -- ch. 36 The verb -- ch. 37 The adverb -- ch. 38 Empty words -- ch. 39 Junctives -- ch. 40 Translatives -- ch. 41 Indices -- ch. 42 Anaphoric connection -- ch. 43 Anaphors -- ch. 44 The method of composite words -- VI. Types of sentences -- ch. 45 Sentence words -- ch. 46 Classification of sentence words -- ch. 47 Types of sentences -- Book B Structure of the simple sentence -- I. Verbal node -- ch. 48 The verbal node -- ch. 49 Subject and predicate -- a. Actants -- ch. 50 Actants -- ch. 51 Types of actants -- ch. 52 Types of actants across languages -- ch. 53 Personal nouns -- ch. 54 Gender of personal nouns
    Abstract: Ch. 24 Categories -- ch. 25 Categories and functions -- ch. 26 Static and dynamic order -- V. Types of words -- ch. 27 Traditional types of words -- ch. 28 Full and empty words -- ch. 29 Constitutive and subsidiary words -- ch. 30 Variable and invariable words -- ch. 31 Full words -- ch. 32 Types of full words -- ch. 33 Symbols and the virtual sentence -- ch. 34 The noun -- ch. 35 The adjective -- ch. 36 The verb -- ch. 37 The adverb -- ch. 38 Empty words -- ch. 39 Junctives -- ch. 40 Translatives -- ch. 41 Indices -- ch. 42 Anaphoric connection -- ch. 43 Anaphors -- ch. 44 The method of composite words -- VI. Types of sentences -- ch. 45 Sentence words -- ch. 46 Classification of sentence words -- ch. 47 Types of sentences -- Book B Structure of the simple sentence -- I. Verbal node -- ch. 48 The verbal node -- ch. 49 Subject and predicate -- a. Actants -- ch. 50 Actants -- ch. 51 Types of actants -- ch. 52 Types of actants across languages -- ch. 53 Personal nouns -- ch. 54 Gender of personal nouns
    Abstract: Ch. 55 Number in personal nouns -- b. Circumstants -- ch. 56 Circumstants -- ch. 57 The dividing line between actants and circumstants -- c. Direct subordinates of the verb -- ch. 58 The structure of the verbal node in German -- ch. 59 Indices -- ch. 60 Oblique personal indices -- ch. 61 Indices and conjugations -- ch. 62 Object conjugation -- II. Nominal node -- ch. 63 The attributive adjective -- ch. 64 The attributive adjective in mitigated languages -- ch. 65 Non-adjectival attributes -- ch. 66 The predicative adjective -- ch. 67 Sentences with 'be' -- ch. 68 Predicates of the second and third actants -- ch. 69 The apposition -- ch. 70 The adjective in apposition -- ch. 71 The apostrophe -- ch. 72 The projection of actants -- ch. 73 The nominal sentence -- III. Adjectival node -- ch. 74 The adjectival node -- ch. 75 The adjectival sentence -- IV. Adverbial node -- ch. 76 The adverbial node -- ch. 77 The adverbial sentence -- Book C Question and negation -- ch. 78 Question and negation
    Abstract: Ch. 79 Nuclear interrogative -- ch. 80 General interrogative words -- ch. 81 Reinforced interrogative words in French -- ch. 82 Binuclear interrogatives -- ch. 83 Connective interrogatives -- ch. 84 The marker of connective interrogatives -- ch. 85 Responses to connective interrogatives -- ch. 86 Exclamatives -- ch. 87 Nuclear negation -- ch. 88 Connective negations -- ch. 89 Anticipating negation -- ch. 90 Agreement of junctives with negation -- ch. 91 Double-trigger negation in French -- ch. 92 The French discordantial -- ch. 93 French forclusives -- ch. 94 Extension and evolution of double-trigger negation -- ch. 95 Double negation -- ch. 96 Permeable negation -- Book D Valency -- ch. 97 Valency and voice -- ch. 98 Avalent verbs -- ch. 99 Monovalent verbs -- ch. 100 Transitive verbs -- ch. 101 The active diathesis -- ch. 102 The passive diathesis -- ch. 103 The reflexive diathesis -- ch. 104 The reflexive possessive adjective -- ch. 105 The reciprocal diathesis -- ch. 106 Trivalent verbs
    Abstract: Ch. 79 Nuclear interrogative -- ch. 80 General interrogative words -- ch. 81 Reinforced interrogative words in French -- ch. 82 Binuclear interrogatives -- ch. 83 Connective interrogatives -- ch. 84 The marker of connective interrogatives -- ch. 85 Responses to connective interrogatives -- ch. 86 Exclamatives -- ch. 87 Nuclear negation -- ch. 88 Connective negations -- ch. 89 Anticipating negation -- ch. 90 Agreement of junctives with negation -- ch. 91 Double-trigger negation in French -- ch. 92 The French discordantial -- ch. 93 French forclusives -- ch. 94 Extension and evolution of double-trigger negation -- ch. 95 Double negation -- ch. 96 Permeable negation -- Book D Valency -- ch. 97 Valency and voice -- ch. 98 Avalent verbs -- ch. 99 Monovalent verbs -- ch. 100 Transitive verbs -- ch. 101 The active diathesis -- ch. 102 The passive diathesis -- ch. 103 The reflexive diathesis -- ch. 104 The reflexive possessive adjective -- ch. 105 The reciprocal diathesis -- ch. 106 Trivalent verbs
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note : Book A Preamble -- I. Structure -- ch. 1 The connection -- ch. 2 Hierarchy of connections -- ch. 3 Node and stemma -- ch. 4 Structural order -- ch. 5 The spoken chain -- ch. 6 Structural and linear order -- a. Order -- ch. 7 Antinomy between structural and linear order -- ch. 8 Direction of linearization -- ch. 9 Strict order -- b. Adherence -- ch. 10 The word -- ch. 11 Agglutination -- c. Classification -- ch. 12 Classification of languages -- ch. 13 Humboldt's historical and typological classification -- ch. 14 Classification according to the direction of linearization -- II. Form -- ch. 15 Syntax and morphology -- ch. 16 Morphological markers -- ch. 17 The zero marker -- ch. 18 The introspective method -- III. Function -- ch. 19 Structure and function -- IV. Meaning -- ch. 20 Distinguishing between structure and meaning -- ch. 21 Relationships of structure and meaning -- ch. 22 The nucleus -- ch. 23 The dissociated nucleus
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    Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages (2014)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing
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    ISBN: 9783319056753
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 251 p. 42 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 44
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Psycholinguistic approaches to meaning and understanding across languages
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    Keywords: Comparative linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Comparative linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Psycholinguistik ; Semantik ; Pragmatik
    Abstract: Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension. This volume takes a genuinely cross-linguistic approach integrating theoretically well-founded contrastive descriptions with thorough empirical investigations. Authors answer questions on the topic of how we ‘encode’ complex thoughts into linguistic signals and how we interpret such signals in appropriate ways. Chapters combine on- and off-line empirical methods varying from large-scale corpus analyses over acceptability judgements, sentence completion studies, and reading time experiments. The authors shed new light on the central questions related to our everyday use of language, especially the problem of how we construe meaning in and through language in general as well as through the means provided by particular languages. “Language is there to construct meaning. But languages are different -- in their lexicon, in their morphosyntax, also in their ways of constructing discourse and in the extent to which they rely on implicit knowledge and on conversational rules. So, what does this tell us about the meanings constructed by language? Are they the same (as, for example, the two number expressions "1989" and "MCMLXXXIX" mean the same) -- or are they different, due to the way how meanings are constructed? This edited volume provides an ingenious way to discuss differences how meanings are constructed, by focusing on narrowly described phenomena and contrasting two languages per article. It seeks evidence for these differences not only from intuition of speakers and from linguistic corpora, but primarily from experimental studies. Thus, it provides an important contribution of our understanding what linguistic meaning is.” Manfred Krifka, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin & Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin
    Description / Table of Contents: ForewordChapter 1: Introduction: Meaning across Languages -- Chapter 2: Understanding Coordinate Clauses: A Cross-Linguistic Experimental Approach -- Chapter 3: Pairing Form and Meaning in English and Norwegian: Conjoined VPs or Conjoined Clauses? -- Chapter 4: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Processing of Aspect -- Chapter 5: Referring Expressions in Speech Reports -- Chapter 6: The Role of Grammaticality Judgments Within an Integral Approach to Brazilian Portuguese Bare Nominals.- Chapter 7: Information Structure and Pronoun Resolution in German and French: Evidence from the Visual-world Paradigm -- Chapter 8: Conversational Implicatures in Anaphora Resolution: Alternative Constructions and Referring Expressions -- Chapter 9: From Verbs to Discourse: A Novel Account of Implicit Causality.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05675-3
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    Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400753105
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 207 p. 220 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 92
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Different kinds of specificity across languages
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    Keywords: Comparative linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Comparative linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Definiteness (Linguistics) ; Semantics ; Konferenzschrift 2007 ; Definitheit ; Kontrastive Semantik
    Abstract: This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regarded specific indefinites are by no means a homogenous class, and so this volume fills a gap in our understanding of the semantics and pragmatics of indefinites. The papers explore differences and similarities among these specificity markers, concentrating on the following issues: whether specificity is a purely semantic or also a pragmatic notion; whether the contribution of specificity markers is located on the level of the at-issue content; whether some kind of speaker-listener asymmetry concerning the identification of the referent is involved; and the behavioral scope of these indefinites in the context of other quantifiers, negation, attitude verbs, and intensional/modal operators
    Abstract: This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regarded specific indefinites are by no means a homogenous class, and so this volume fills a gap in our understanding of the semantics and pragmatics of indefinites.The papers explore differences and similarities among these specificity markers, concentrating on the following issues: whether specificity is a purely semantic or also a pragmatic notion; whether the contribution of specificity markers is located on the level of the at-issue content; whether some kind of speaker-listener asymmetry concerning the identification of the referent is involved; and the behavioral scope of these indefinites in the context of other quantifiers, negation, attitude verbs, and intensional/modal operators.
    Description / Table of Contents: Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Specificity Markers and Nominal Exclamatives in French; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Un N Précis Versus un N; 2.2.1 An Anti-singleton Indefinite; 2.2.2 A Selective Indefinite; 2.2.3 Background and Scope; 2.3 Un Certain N Versus un N (Précis); 2.3.1 Un Certain N And un N Précis; 2.3.2 Un Certain N Versus un N; 2.3.2.1 The Uses of un Certain N; 2.3.2.2 The Evidential Value of un Certain N; 2.3.3 Intermediate Conclusion; 2.4 The Puzzle of Exclamative Nominal Sentences
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1 The Guise of the Surprise2.4.2 A Temporal Conflict; 2.4.3 Some Speculations About Evaluative Items; 2.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: The Interpretation of the German Specificity Markers Bestimmt and Gewiss; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Syntax of Bestimmt and Gewiss; 3.3 Semantic Differences Between Bestimmt and Gewiss; 3.3.1 Identifiability; 3.3.2 The Scope-Taking Behaviour of `Bestimmt' and `Gewiss'; 3.3.2.1 Negation; 3.3.2.2 Nominal Quantifiers; 3.3.2.3 Conditionals; 3.3.2.4 Intensional Operators; 3.4 A Comparison to Other Specificity Markers; 3.5 A Formal Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.1 Technicalities: Concealed Questions Under Cover3.5.2 The Meaning of `Bestimmt'; 3.5.2.1 Pragmatic Issues; 3.5.2.2 Identifiability; 3.5.2.3 Scope: Nominal Quantifiers; 3.5.2.4 Scope: Negation; 3.5.2.5 Scope: Intensional Operators and Conditionals; 3.5.3 Technicalities: Conventional Implicatures; 3.5.4 The Meaning of `Gewiss'; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Pragmatic Variation Among Specificity Markers; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Specificity Marking in English and Russian; 4.3 Felicity Conditions on Specificity; 4.3.1 ThisR-Indefinites and Noteworthiness
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 OdinR-Indefinites and Identifiability4.3.3 Felicity Conditions: Noteworthiness vs. Identifiability; 4.3.4 Shades of Identifiability; 4.3.5 Crosslinguistic Evidence; 4.4 Anti-uniqueness; 4.4.1 A Possible Answer: Maximize Presupposition; 4.4.2 Deriving the Anti-uniqueness Effects on OdinR; 4.5 Possessive Constructions; 4.5.1 Types of Possessive Constructions in Russian; 4.5.2 Possessive Constructions and Specificity in Russian; 4.5.3 The Puzzle; 4.6 Conclusion and Further Questions; References; Chapter 5: Certain Presuppositions and Some Intermediate Readings, and Vice Versa
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 Choice Functions and Intermediate Readings; 5.2.1 Wide-Scope Indefinites and Choice Functions; 5.2.2 Existential Closure versus Choice Functions from Context; 5.3 Different Kinds of Exceptional Scope: A Certain and Some; 5.4 The Meaning for Some and a Presuppositional Explanation of Schwarz's Generalization; 5.5 Presuppositions of a Certain; 5.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Exceptional Scope: The Case of Spanish; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Domain Restriction and Exceptional Scope: Un vs. Algún; 6.2.1 Singleton Indefinites; 6.2.2 Un vs. Algún
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2.3 Testing the Prediction: Un vs. Algún in Relative Clauses and Conditionals
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    Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400759831
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 93
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Studies in the composition and decomposition of event predicates
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Verbalphrase ; Ereignissemantik
    Abstract: This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure.The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to ‘event structure’ frameworks and mereological models for the eventuality domain, have sidelined research on specific sets of entailments that support a typology of event predicates. Addressing this imbalance in the literature, the work also presents evidence indicating a more complex role for scalar structures than currently assumed. It will enrich the work of semanticists, psycholinguists, and syntacticians with a decompositional approach to verb phrase structure
    Description / Table of Contents: Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The (De)composition of Event Predicates; 1.1 Subatomic Semantics of Event Predicates; 1.2 Aspectual Composition; 1.2.1 Event-Argument Homomorphism; 1.2.2 Scales, Degrees, Generalized Paths; 1.2.3 The Contribution of the Verb vs. Other Elements; 1.2.4 Aspectual Tests, Coercion, Quantified Incremental Arguments; 1.3 Adverbial Modification; 1.3.1 Interaction with Event Structure; 1.3.2 Interaction with Scales; 1.3.3 Interaction with Temporal Structure; 1.4 Experimental Studies of Event Predicates
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.5 ConclusionReferences; Chapter 2: On the Criteria for Distinguishing Accomplishments from Activities, and Two Types of Aspectual Misfits; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Criteria for the Distinction Between Activities and Accomplishments; 2.2.1 Telos; 2.2.2 The Subinterval Property (Homogeneity) and Cumulativity; 2.2.3 Specifying Temporal Extent; 2.2.4 Entailments Between Simple Tense and Progressive Sentences; 2.2.5 Result States; 2.2.6 Iteration; 2.2.7 Accomplishments Can Have Two Readings Where Activities Have Only One; 2.2.8 Partial Completion; 2.3 Accomplishments Entail Activities
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Delimited Situations Without a Predetermined Telos2.4.1 The Problem; 2.4.2 Hallman's Solution; 2.4.3 A Pragmatic Explanation; 2.5 Predicates with Selected Non-specific DPs; 2.5.1 (Unstressed) Some, a Few, Many/a Lot Of; 2.5.2 At Most, at Least; 2.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Lexicalized Meaning and Manner/Result Complementarity; 3.1 Manner/Result Complementarity: A Constraint on Verb Meaning?; 3.2 Manners, Results and the Relation Between Them; 3.3 Putative Counterexamples to Manner/Result Complementarity; 3.4 A Potential Counterexample from the Change of State Domain
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 A Potential Counterexample from the Motion Domain3.5.1 The Manner Lexicalized by Climb; 3.5.2 Where Does the Inference of Upwardness Come From?; 3.5.3 Transitive Climb Does Not Lexicalize Direction; 3.5.4 The Direction-Only Use of Climb; 3.6 Potential Counterexamples Are Systematic, Even if Sporadic; 3.7 Concluding Words: The Lesson from the Problematic Verbs; References; Chapter 4: Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-Verbs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Subjective Adverbs: Typology and Ambiguities; 4.2.1 Dispositional Adverbs; 4.2.1.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1.2 The Manner Reading: Two Previous Analyses4.2.2 Psychological Adverbs; 4.2.2.1 Ernst 2002; 4.2.2.2 Geuder 2000/2004; 4.2.3 Relative and Absolute Transparent Adverbs; 4.2.4 The Manner Reading of Adverbs with a Transparent Use; 4.2.5 Evaluative Reading; 4.2.6 Result Reading; 4.3 Subjective Adverbs and Weakly Agentive Predicates; 4.3.1 Convince Cleverly; 4.3.2 Convince Patiently; 4.3.3 Psychological Adverbs; 4.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Two Sources of Scalarity Within the Verb Phrase; 5.1 Scalarity and the Verb Phrase; 5.2 Eventive and Evaluative Uses of Half
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2.1 Two Readings
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke & Rafael Marín: Introduction: The (De)composition of Event Predicates -- 2. Anita Mittwoch: On the Criteria for Distinguishing Accomplishments from Activities, and Two Types of Aspectual Misfits -- 3. Beth Levin & Malka Rappaport Hovav: Lexicalized Meaning and Manner/Result Complementarity -- 4. Fabienne Martin: Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-verbs -- 5. M. Ryan Bochnak: Two Sources of Scalarity within the Verb Phrase -- 6. Jens Fleischhauer: Interaction of Telicity and Degree Gradation in Change of State Verbs   -- 7. Kyle Rawlins: On Adverbs of (Space and) Time -- 8. Oliver Bott: The Processing Domain of Aspectual Information -- 9. Evie Malaia, Ronnie B. Wilbur & Christine Weber-Fox: Event End-Point Primes the Undergoer Argument: Neurobiological Bases of  Event Structure Processing.
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    Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language (2012)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789400726819
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 970p. 10 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 90
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. Handbook of quantifiers in natural langauge ; volume 1: Handbook of quantifiers in natural language
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Quantor ; Kontrastive Linguistik ; Quantor ; Kontrastive Linguistik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Denis Paperno
    Abstract: Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The language data sets enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. These include semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounding, exception phrases) and several others such as quantifier scope ambiguities, quantifier float, and binary quantifiers. Its theory-independent content extends earlier work by Matthewson (2008) and Bach et al. (1995), making this handbook suitable for linguists, semanticians, philosophers of language and logicians alike. Edward L. Keenan is Distinguished Professor of linguistics at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Formal Linguistics from The University of Pennsylvania in 1969 for a thesis on A Presupposition Logic for Natural Language. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published in numerous areas of linguistics, including syntactic typology, formal semantics, theoretical syntax, historical syntax, and Austronesian linguistics. He has co-authored two books: Boolean Semantics for Natural Language (1985), with Leonard Faltz, and Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants, with Edward P. Stabler (2003). Denis Paperno is a graduate of the Moscow State University andcurrently a PhD candidate at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has done fieldwork in the Komi Republic, the Udmurt Republic, the Caucasus, and W. Africa and has written a grammar of Beng (Mande; Cote d'Ivoire) (in Russian). In addition to African linguistics he has published in semantics and syntactic typology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; How to Read This Book; Some (Un)Familiar Notation; Cross Chapter Diversity; References; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Quantifier Questionnaire; 1.1 Generalized Existential (Intersective) Quantifiers; 1.1.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.1.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.2 Generalized Universal (Co-intersective) Quantifiers; 1.2.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.2.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.3 Proportional Quantification; 1.3.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.3.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.4 Morpho-Syntactically Complex Quantifiers; 1.4.1 Complex D-Quantifiers; 1.4.1.1 Cardinal Quantifiers; 1.4.1.2 Value Judgment Cardinals
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.4.1.3 Exception Modifiers1.4.1.4 Proportional Quantifiers; 1.4.1.5 Boolean Compounds; 1.4.1.6 Partitives; 1.4.2 Complex A-Quantifiers; 1.4.2.1 A-Quantifiers; 1.4.2.2 Boolean Compounds; II Selected Topics; 1.5 Comparative Quantifiers; 1.6 Type (2) Quantifiers; 1.7 Distributive Numerals and Binominal Each; 1.8 Mass Quantifiers and Noun Classifiers; 1.9 Existential Constructions; 1.10 `Floating' Quantifiers; 1.11 Distribution of Quantifiers; 1.11.1 Bare Qs as Predicates; 1.11.2 Can Bare Qs Function as Arguments?; 1.12 Relations Between Lexical Universal, Existential and Interrogative Pronouns
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.13 Decreasing D-Quantifiers1.13.1 Does Your L Have Quantifiers Which Build Decreasing NPs?; 1.13.2 If Your L Has Decreasing NPs Do They License Negative Polarity Items?; 1.14 Distribution; 1.14.1 Grammatical Roles; 1.14.2 Special Positions; 1.15 Scope Ambiguities; 1.16 One to One Dependency; 1.17 Rate Phrases; 1.18 Some Concluding Spot Checks; References; Chapter 2: Quantifiers in Adyghe; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Adyghe Grammar: Some Background; 2.2.1 The asime Alternation: A Test for Syntactic Category; Three Basic Classes of Quantifiers; 2.3 Generalized Existential (Intersective) Quantifiers
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.1 D-Quantifiers2.3.1.1 Form of Existential Sentences; 2.3.1.2 Affirmative/Negative Existentials; 2.3.1.3 Pivot Position and Weak Determiners; 2.3.1.4 Numerals and Modified Numerals; 2.3.1.5 Value-Judgment Cardinals; 2.3.1.6 Interrogatives; 2.3.1.7 Boolean Compounds; 2.3.1.8 Numeral Classifiers; 2.3.1.9 Container Expressions; 2.3.1.10 Measure Phrases; 2.3.1.11 Units of Time and Distance; 2.3.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.4 Generalized Universal (Co-intersective) Quantifiers; 2.4.1 D-Quantifiers; 2.4.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.4.3 Forming Complex Universal Quantifiers; 2.5 Proportional Quantifiers
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5.1 D-Quantifiers2.5.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.6 Follow-Up Questions; 2.6.1 Some Background; 2.6.1.1 Definite NPs; 2.6.1.2 Generic NPs; 2.6.2 Monomorphemic and Simplex Quantifiers; 2.6.2.1 Selectional Properties of D-Quantifiers; 2.6.3 Decreasing QNPs: Forming Decreasing QNPs - NPI Licensing; 2.6.4 Boolean Compounds; 2.6.4.1 D-Quantifiers; 2.6.4.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.6.5 Exception Phrases; 2.6.6 Only; 2.6.7 Partitives; 2.6.8 Quantifiers as Predicates; 2.6.8.1 Quantifiers as DPs; 2.6.9 Distribution; 2.6.9.1 Scope Ambiguities; 2.6.9.2 Numbers; 2.6.9.3 Forcing Collective/Distributive Readings
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.6.9.4 Modified Numerals in Object Position
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9
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    Morphotactics : Basque Auxiliaries and the Structure of Spellout (2012)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 418 p. 112 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 86
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
    Abstract: This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the syntactic and postsyntactic components of word formation, and the role of hierarchical, featural, and linear restrictions within the auxiliary systems of several varieties of Basque. The postsyntactic component is modeled as a highly articulated system that accounts for what is shared and what exhibits variation across Basque dialects. The emphasis is on a principled ordering of postsyntactic operations based on their intrinsic properties, and on the relationship between representations in the Spellout component of grammar with other grammatical modules. The analyses in the book treat related phenomena in other languages and thereby have much to offer for a general morphology readership, as well as those interested in the syntax-morphology interface, the theory of Distributed Morphology, and Basque.
    Description / Table of Contents: Morphotactics; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Basque Orthography; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Structure of Spellout; 1.1 Major Claims of This Book; 1.2 Distributed Morphology and the Division of Labor in Word Formation; 1.2.1 An Overview of the Serial and Modular Components; 1.2.2 An Overview of DM Elements and Operations; 1.3 The Basque Language; 1.3.1 Geographic and Demographic Background; 1.3.2 Orthography and Other Conventions in Representing Basque Sentences; 1.3.3 Sources of Data; 1.4 Brief Overview of Basque Syntax and Morphology; 1.4.1 Argument Structure and Case
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.4.2 The Syntax and Morphology of DPs1.4.3 The Syntax of Auxiliaries: T, C, and Agreement; 1.4.4 The Syntax of Auxiliaries and Pronominal Clitics; 1.4.5 Other Aspects of Verbal Syntax; 1.4.5.1 Finite Main Verbs; 1.4.5.2 Nonindicative Auxiliaries; 1.4.5.3 Colloquial/Formal Distinctions and Allocutive Morphology; 1.4.5.4 Binding-Theoretic Considerations; 1.5 Overview of the Book; Chapter 2: The Syntax of Cliticization and Agreement; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Clitic Placement; 2.2.1 Clitic Generation; 2.2.2 Clitic Movement; 2.2.3 Alternative Analyses of Cliticization
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.4 Summary: The Syntax of Cliticization2.3 The Person-Case Constraint and Absolutive Promotion; 2.3.1 The Person-Case Constraint in Basque; 2.3.2 Absolutive Promotion; 2.3.3 Movement Verbs and PCC Effects; 2.3.4 Other PCC Repairs; 2.4 Agreement; 2.4.1 Multiple Agree; 2.4.2 Agree-Copy; 2.4.3 Complementizer Agreement; 2.4.4 Summary: The Syntax of Agreement; 2.5 Default Agreement; 2.6 Complementizers Within the Auxiliary Complex; 2.7 Conclusion: Cliticization vs. Agreement; Chapter 3: The Morphophonology of Basque Finite Auxiliaries; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Vocabulary Insertion
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.1 Contextual Restrictions and Linear Adjacency3.2.2 Competition Among Vocabulary Entries; 3.3 Clitic Realization in the Morphophonology; 3.3.1 Clitics and Morpheme Order in the Auxiliary; 3.3.2 The Realization of Clitics; 3.3.3 Dative Clitics and Dative Flags; 3.3.4 Plural Fission; 3.3.5 On the Absence of Third Person Absolutive Clitics; 3.3.6 On Plural Morphology in Basque Finite Verbs; 3.4 The Realization of Agreement on T; 3.4.1 Allomorphy in the Context of Ergative and Dative Clitics; 3.4.2 Lekeitio; 3.4.3 Ondarru and Zamudio; 3.4.4 Multiple Agreement in Lekeitio; 3.4.5 Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 The Realization of Auxiliary Morphemes in Previous Accounts3.6 Phonological Rules; 3.6.1 Morpheme-Specific Rules; 3.6.2 Syllabification and Related Processes; 3.6.3 Other Phonological Processes; 3.6.4 Rule Interaction; 3.6.5 Rules that Apply Across Word Boundaries; 3.6.6 Summary; 3.7 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Deletion Operations Targeting Morphological Markedness; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Distinctions Among Types of Postsyntactic Deletion Operations; 4.3 Paradigmatic Markedness; 4.3.1 Formal/Colloquial Neutralization; 4.3.2 Paradigmatic Impoverishment in First Singular Clitics
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Syntagmatic Markedness
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    Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification (2012)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789400743878
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 253 p. 22 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 87
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    Keywords: Chinese language ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Chinese language ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Kantonesisch ; Partikel ; Quantifizierung
    Abstract: Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. The author shows how these verbal suffixes display a unique interplay of syntax and semantics: used in a sentence with no focus, they quantify items flexibly, according to an accessibility hierarchy; with focus, focus comes into effect after syntactic selection. This fresh and compelling perspective in the study of particles and quantification is the first in-depth analysis of Cantonese verbal suffixes. It compares the languageâs affixal quantification to the alternative determiner and adverbial quantifiers. The bookâs syntax-semantics mapping geography deploys both descriptive and theoretical approaches, making it an essential resource for researchers studying the nexus of syntax and semantics, as well as Cantonese itself
    Abstract: Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. The author shows how these verbal suffixes display a unique interplay of syntax and semantics: used in a sentence with no focus, they quantify items flexibly, according to an accessibility hierarchy; with focus, focus comes into effect after syntactic selection. This fresh and compelling perspective in the study of particles and quantification is the first in-depth analysis of Cantonese verbal suffixes. It compares the languages affixal quantification to the alternative determiner and adverbial quantifiers. The books syntax-semantics mapping geography deploys both descriptive and theoretical approaches, making it an essential resource for researchers studying the nexus of syntax and semantics, as well as Cantonese itself.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification; Abstract; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Problem; 1.2 Major Ideas to Be Proposed; 1.3 Organization; Chapter 2: Previous Analyses on Quantification and Cantonese Verbal Suffixes; 2.1 Introduction: Quantification in Natural Language; 2.2 Generalized Quantifiers; 2.3 D-Quantification and A-Quantification; 2.3.1 D-Quantification: Assimilating A-Quantification with D-Quantification; 2.3.2 A-Quantification; 2.3.3 Tripartite Structures
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.4 Distinguishing D-Quantification from A-Quantification: The Role of Focus in D-Quantification and A-Quantification2.4 Where Does Affixal Quanti fi cation Stand? A- or D-Quantification?; 2.4.1 Previous Literature of Af fi xal Quanti fi cation; 2.4.2 Verbal Suffixes in Cantonese: What Is Special About Cantonese?; 2.4.2.1 An Overview: A Rich Inventory of Verbal Suffixes in Cantonese; 2.4.2.2 Morpho-Syntactic Properties of Cantonese Affixal Quantifiers; 2.5 Previous Analyses of Quantifying Verbal Suf fi xes in Cantonese - - hoi , - maai and - saai
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5.1 Previous Analyses of - hoi and Their Limitations2.5.1.1 - Hoi as a Progressive Marker; 2.5.1.2 - Hoi as a Continuative Marker; 2.5.1.3 - Hoi as a Habitual Marker; 2.5.2 Previous Analyses of - maai and Their Limitations; 2.5.2.1 - Maai Marks an "Extension"; 2.5.2.2 - Maai Marks the Completion of an Event; 2.5.2.3 - Maai Marks an "Accumulation"; 2.5.2.4 - Maai and " lin … je "; 2.5.3 Previous Analyses of - saai and Their Limitations; 2.5.3.1 The Definiteness/Specificity of the Associated NPs; 2.5.3.2 The Telicity Requirement of - saai; 2.5.3.3 The Divisibility Requirement of - saai
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5.3.4 Two Derived Meanings of - saai2.5.3.5 Quantification of - saai : - saai as a Nominal Quantifier or an Anti-quantifier; - Saai as a Nominal Quantifier (cf. T. Lee 1994, 1995); - Saai as an A-Quantifier Over Events or as an Anti-quantifier; - Saai Is Neither an Event Quantifier Nor a Pure Nominal Quantifier; Chapter 3: The Quantification Accessibility Hierarchy for Affixal Quantifiers; 3.1 - Saai , - hoi and - maai as Quantifiers; 3.2 A Selectional Restriction of Universal Quantifier - saai : The Part Structure Requirement
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 A Selectional Restriction of Generic Quantifier - hoi : A Plurality Condition for Affixal Quantifiers3.3.1 Does - hoi Require an Event or a Situation Variable?; 3.3.2 A Plurality Condition for Affixal Quantifiers; 3.3.2.1 A Plurality of Events or Situations; 3.3.2.2 A Plurality of Events Given by the Subevent Property or [+Part] Objects; 3.3.2.3 Plurality Satis fi ed by a Set of Time Points; 3.4 A Selectional Restriction of Additive Quantifier - maai : The Definiteness Requirement; 3.4.1 - Maai Imposes No Restriction on Its Co-occurring Predicate
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4.2 - Maai Requires a [+Definite] Argument
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    New Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Translation Studies (2011)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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    ISBN: 9783642200830
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 240p. 19 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Second Language Learning and Teaching
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. New perspectives in language, discourse and translation studies
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    Keywords: Phonology ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Translating and interpreting ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Phonology ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Translating and interpreting ; Linguistik ; Phonologie ; Psycholinguistik ; Universalgrammatik ; Kontrastive Grammatik ; Syntax ; Übersetzung ; Dolmetschen ; Linguistik ; Phonologie ; Psycholinguistik ; Universalgrammatik ; Kontrastive Grammatik ; Syntax ; Übersetzung ; Dolmetschen
    Abstract: Jakub Bielak
    Abstract: The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic subdisciplines such as phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, historical linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, as well as translation. Since the contributions contained in the book touch upon such a variety of disciplines and do so from both more traditional and more innovative perspectives, it will be an im
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Part I Phonetics and Phonology; 1 Aspiration in Polish: A Sound Change in Progress?; 2 Noise as a Phonological Element: On the Representationof Plosives and Affricates; 3 Word and Foot Minimality in English: A MetricalGovernment Analysis; Part II Grammar: Morphology and Syntax; 4 The Psychological Reality of Grammar. A Cognitive Linguistics Perspective; 5 A Morphologist's Perspective on "Event Structure Theory"of Nominalizations; 6 A Recalcitrant Nature of Object Experiencers; 7 On the Representations of Motion Events: Perspectivesfrom L2 Research
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 On the Interplay Between Prepositional Categories. The Caseof the Polish od-do Construction9 Governed Prepositions in English: A Corpus-Based Study; Part III Historical Linguistics; 10 Reflections on Structural Variation in Old English Verbs; 11 The Semantic Analysis of Old English unnan; Part IV Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics; 12 "When We Talk, It Never Materializes": Functions of Off-Record Communication in Conflict Talk; 13 Territorialization in Political Discourse: A Pragma-Linguistic Studyof Jerzy Buzek's Inaugural Speeches
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 From a Complaint through Therapy to Recovery: PatientIndexicality in Medical Case Reports15 Beyond and within Standard English: Categories, CategoryBoundaries and Fuzziness; Part V Translation; 16 Construction Grammar as a Framework for Describing Translation: A Prolegomenon; 17 Crossing the Frontiers of Linguistic Typology: Lexical Differences and Translation Patterns in English and Russian Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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    Variation in the Input : Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789048192076 , 1283003112 , 9781283003117
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 276 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 39
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Spracherwerb ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Wortstellung ; Sprachvariante ; Spracherwerb ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Wortstellung ; Sprachvariante
    Abstract: The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics in recent years. This includes research on linguistic micro-variation that is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. However, relatively little work has been done on how this variation is acquired. This book focuses on how different types of variation are expressed in the input and how this is acquired by young children. The collection of papers includes studies of the acquisition of variation in a number of different languages, including English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Swiss German, Ukrainian, and American Sign Language. Different kinds of linguistic variation are considered, ranging from pure word order variation to optionally doubly filled COMPs and the resolution of scopal ambiguities. In addition, papers in the volume deal with the extreme case of variation found in bilingual acquisition.
    Description / Table of Contents: VARIATION IN THE INPUT; The Acquisition of (Word Order) Variation; Optional Illusions; `Optional' Doubly-Filled COMPs (DFCs) in Wh-Complements in Child and Adult Swiss German; The Acquisition of Adjectival Ordering in Italian; Input Factors in Early Verb Acquisition: Do Word Frequency and Word Order Variability of Verbs Matter?; Word Order in the Development of Dative Constructions: A Comparison of Cantonese and English; Using Early ASL Word Order to Shed Light on Word Order Variability in Sign Language; Variable Word Order in Child Greek
    Description / Table of Contents: Optional Scrambling Is Not Random: Evidence from English-Ukrainian AcquisitionThe Acquisition of Apparent Optionality: Word Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9207-6
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    Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (2011)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789400716889
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 400p. 25 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 41
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Handbook of generative approaches to language acquisition
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    Keywords: Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Language and languages ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Language and languages ; Spracherwerb ; Generative Grammatik
    Abstract: Tom Roeper
    Abstract: Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring core concepts in acquisition theory, including notions of the initial state, parameters, triggering theory, the role of competition and frequency, and many others, across a variety of syntactic topics that have formed the central domains of investigation and debate. These topics are treated fro
    Description / Table of Contents: Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Some History; 2 Parameters; 3 Interfaces; 4 The Papers; 5 Conclusion; References; Missing Subjects in Early Child Language; 1 Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory; 2 Missing Subjects and Parameter Missettings; 2.1 The Pro-drop Hypothesis; 2.2 Morphological Uniformity; 2.3 The Topic Drop Hypothesis; 2.4 Competing Grammars Hypothesis; 2.5 Null Subjects and RIs: The PRO Hypothesis; 2.6 Null Subjects in Finite Clauses; 2.7 Root Subject Drop and Truncation; 3 Grammar-External Accounts
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1 Processing Limitations3.2 Metrical Effects; 3.3 Spontaneous Production and Imitation; 4 Converging Methodologies; 4.1 Null Subjects in Comprehension; 5 Information Structure and Null Subjects; 5.1 Is Effects on Null Subjects in Child Language; 5.2 An Information Structure Account of the VP Length Effect; 6 Some Concluding Remarks; References; Grammatical Computation in the Optional Infinitive Stage; 1 OI and Non-OI Languages; 2 English; 3 Case and OI's; 3.1 Models of the OI Stage: A First Pass; 3.1.1 Radical Omission Models; The UCC; Truncation
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2 UCC Versus Truncation: Further Empirical Predictions and Tests3.2.1 OI's in Embedded Sentences; 3.3 Why Does the OI Stage Exist?; 3.4 Empiricist Theories of the OI Stage; 3.5 Be-Omission; 4 Some Omitted Topics; 5 Conclusion; References; Computational Models of Language Acquisition; 1 Introduction; 2 Data and Generalization; 3 Learnability; 3.1 Negative Results; 3.2 Positive Results; 4 Grammar and Distributional Learning; 4.1 Distribution and Syntactic Categories; 4.2 Distributional Learning of Grammar; 5 Learning as Selection; 5.1 Parameter Setting; 5.2 Toward Feasible Parameter Setting
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Learnability and Development6.1 The Subset Principle; 6.2 Parameters and Development; 7 Conclusion; References; The Acquisition of the Passive; 1 Reasons for a Potential Delay; 1.1 Grammatical Role Reversal; 1.2 Functional Similarity; 1.3 Frequency; 1.4 Syntactic Synonyms; 1.5 Optionality of By -phrase: Short Versus Long Passives; 1.6 Other Complications; 2 Early Studies of the Passive; 2.1 Imitation, Comprehension and Production; 2.2 Actional Versus Non-actional Passives; 2.3 Long Versus Short Passives; 3 Theoretical Accounts for the Delay in the Passive; 3.1 A-Chain Deficit Hypothesis
    Description / Table of Contents: Prediction 1: Uniform Application of the ACHD to All PassivesPrediction 2: Uniformity of the A-Chain Deficit; Unaccusatives; Raising; Prediction 3: Developmental Synchrony; Prediction 4: Universal Delay of A-Chains; 3.2 Universal Phase Requirement; 3.3 Theta-Transmission; 3.3.1 Predictions of the Theta-Transmission Model; Prediction 1: Actionality; Prediction 2: Interpretation of the By -phrase; Prediction 3: Long Versus Short Passives; 3.4 Frequency; 3.5 Other Languages; 4 Recent Developments; 4.1 Revisions to the Protocol of the Truth Value Judgment Task; 4.2 Priming
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Mandarin and Cantonese
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    Linking : The Geometry of Argument Structure (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781402083075
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: 1
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 74
    DDC: 401.43
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Semantics ; Argument linking ; Argumentstruktur ; Verb
    Abstract: Linking - how semantic arguments map to the syntax - is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. This title explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. It provides a simple and consistent account of linking
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 A Phenomenon and a Principle: The Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis; 2 Representations; 3 The Competition; 4 Advantages of this Proposal; 5 GoingForward; Part I A Geometric Theory of Linking; 1 Conceptual Structure; 2 Eliminating the Direct/Indirect Internal Argument Distinction; 3 Explaining Linking Regularities; 4 Syntactically Unexpressed Arguments, Incorporation, and Adjuncts; 5 The Linking of Resultative Verbs: Clausal Fusion; 6 The Prohibition Against Double Fusion; Part II More Linking Results Across the Lexicon
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Causative Verbs with PLACE Arguments8 Unaccusatives: A Cluster of Verb Classes; 9 Complex Causative Verbs; 10 Other Verb Classes, Other Issues, and Conclusions; Summary of Definitions, Principles and Rules; References; Index of English Words Discussed; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8308-2
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    Inner Aspect : The Articulation of VP (2010)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789048185504
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 308p, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 80
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Travis, Lisa deMena Inner aspect
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    Keywords: Austroasiatic languages ; Comparative linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Austroasiatic languages ; Comparative linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Verbalphrase ; Aspekt ; Ereignissemantik ; Kontrastive Linguistik
    Abstract: "This monograph probes the structure of the verb phrase through a cross-linguistic investigation of the syntax and morphology of relevant constructions. In particular, the author provides evidence for two event-related non-lexical projections called ""inner aspect"" and ""event"". The former is found within the verb phrase and encodes information on the endpoint of an event. The latter is found at the edge of the verb phrase and demarcates the boundary of a particular domain of syntax, L-syntax. Although languages vary in their use of these projections and in the way they encode the endpoints of events, the author argues that the comparison of a number of languages and the analysis of a range of constructions results in the emergence of a consistent picture. While much of the discussion involves Austronesian languages such as Malagasy and Tagalog, other languages such as French, Spanish, Swedish, Scots Gaelic, Chinese, Japanese, Navajo, Slave, and Kalagan are discussed. Syntactic and morphological data from these languages are used to illuminate the details of the phrase structure of the verbal predicate. These data also aid in understanding how phrase structure is used to express certain facets of language, such as event structure, aspectual verb classes, productive and lexical causatives, derived objects, agents and causes, and coerced structures."
    Description / Table of Contents: INNER ASPECT; Introduction; Inner Derived Objects; Inner Aspect and Event; Event Structure and Phrase Structure; Interaction of Objects and Aspect; L-Syntax and S-Syntax; The Syntax of Achievements; Bounds and Coercion; Conclusion; References; Author Index; Language Index; Subject Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8550-4
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    Differential subject marking (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 72
    DDC: 400
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Subjekt ; Markiertheit ; Nominalphrase
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6497-5
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    Universals of Language Today (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9781402088254
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 76
    DDC: 410.1
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Phonology ; Universalsprache
    Abstract: Collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an overview of the status of the research on linguistic universals. This book illustrates and discusses a number of phenomena from a wide variety of languages
    Description / Table of Contents: How Universal are Linguistic Categories?; An Empirical Test of the Agglutination Hypothesis; What Linguistic Universals Can Be True Of; Universals of Prosodic Structure; Lexical Integrity As A Formal Universal: A Constructionist View; Searching for Universals in Compounding; Universals and Features; Methods for Finding Language Universals in Syntax; The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages; The Branching Direction Theory of Word Order Correlations Revisited; Universals and Semantics; The Evolution of Latin Word (Dis)order
    Description / Table of Contents: Typological Universals and Second Language Acquisition
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8825-4
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    Time and Modality (2008)
    [Dordrecht] : Springer | [Heidelberg] : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402083549
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 75
    DDC: 415.62
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    Keywords: Linguistics Semantics ; Computational linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Philosophy (General)
    Abstract: Here is a unique work of reference. Not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality, but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model.
    Abstract: Time and Modality is a unique work of reference; not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model. Various topics are covered in this volume: among them are the counterfactual uses of conditionals, modals, and past tense; the irrealis use of perfective aspect; a special English subjunctive; the interaction of tense assignment and the definition of an event; the modal verb as a causative verb; the interaction of modality, tense, and aktionsart; the contrast between deontic and epistemic modal with respect to tense interpretation; the syntax of epistemic modals; the long-awaited definition of generic and habitual sentence; and the introduction of intensionality in copular clauses. Although every article deals with English to some degree, two chapters compare the syntax and semantics of tense and modality in Spanish vs English. The authors also investigate Slavic, Germanic, Afro-Asiatic, Oriental, Amerindian Languages and Hungarian. Written for:Researchers in logic, semantics and/or metaphysics of time, including cognition and philosophy of language, formal theories of semantics or pragmatics, as well as linguists who study the structure of the sentence, whether they are generativist grammarians or not
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Patterns in the Semantics of Generic Sentences; Intensional Subjects and Indirect Contextual Anchoring; Temporal Orientation in Conditionals; On the Temporal Syntax of Non-Root Modals; How to Say Ought in Foreign: The Composition of Weak Necessity Modals; On the Temporal Function of Modal Verbs; The English Perfect and the Metaphysics of Events; Tense and Modality in Nominals; Time With and Without Tense; The English Konjunktiv II; Phasing in Modals: Phases and the Epistemic/Root Distinction
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8354-9
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    The Linearization Of Affixes: Evidence From Nuu-Chah-Nulth (2008)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 73
    DDC: 497.9555
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Indic philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Hochschulschrift ; Nootka-Sprache ; Affigierung ; Morphosyntax
    Abstract: This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The author's driving proposition is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement to linearize linguistic outputs. This proposition is tested using original data from Nuu-chah-nulth ('Nootka'; Wakashan family), an endangered Amerindian language that is remarkable for its complex morphology.
    Abstract: "The linearization of syntactic constructs stands at the forefront of current research on the syntax-phonology interface. This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The driving proposal of this book is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement that linguistic outputs be linearized. This hypothesis is tested against extensive original data from Nuu-chah-nulth (""Nootka"", Wakashan family), an endangered Amerindian language remarkable for its complex morphology. This volume introduces typologically rare affixation effects to current theoretical debates surrounding the division of labour between the modules of the grammar."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; PF Incorporation; Clausal Architecture of Nuu-chah-nulth; Nominal Complements of Affixal Predicates; Verbal Complements of Affixal Predicates; Implications; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6548-4
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    Morphosemantic Number : From Kiowa Noun Classes to UG Number Features (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402050381
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 220 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 69
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Harbour, Daniel Morphosemantic number
    Parallel Title: Print version Morphosemantic Number : From Kiowa Noun Classes to Ug Number Features
    RVK:
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    RVK:
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Indic philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Phonology ; Semantics ; Numerus ; Morphosyntax ; Kiowa-Sprache ; Grammatik
    Abstract: Framework -- Kiowa's Noun Classes -- Number Features -- Agreement And Suppletion -- The Agreement Prefix -- Conclusions and Consequences
    Abstract: Number is a major research domain in semantics, syntax and morphology. However, no current theory of number is applicable to all three fields. In this work, Harbour argues that a unified theory is not only possible, but necessary for the study of Universal Grammar. Through insightful analysis of unfamiliar data, he shows that one and the same feature set is implicated in semantic and morphological number phenomena alike, with syntax acting as the conduit between the two. At the heart of the study is an original treatment of Kiowa, a North American language with a remarkable constellation of characteristics, including semantically based noun classification and complex agreement morphology. This volume presents: the foundations of a unified morphosemantic theory of number; insight into the flow of information from the lexicon, via syntax, into the morphology; wide-ranging topics: nominal semantics, noun classes, DP syntax, agreement, suppletion, complex morphology
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5038-1
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    Event Structure and the Left Periphery : Studies on Hungarian (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402047558
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    Series Statement: Studies In Natural Language And Linguistic Theory 68
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Event structure and the left periphery
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general Verb ; Semantics ; Hungarian language Syntax ; Hungarian language Verb ; Hungarian language Semantics ; Ungarisch ; Ereignissemantik ; Linksverzweigende Konstruktion
    Abstract: Aims and Background -- The Function and the Syntax of the Verbal Particle -- Verbal Particles Telicizing Stative Psych Verbs -- Definiteness Effect Verbs -- Weak and Strong Accomplishments -- Particles and a Two Component Theory of Aspect -- From the Grammaticalization of Viewpoint Aspect to the Grammaticalization of Situation Aspect -- Accusative Case and Aspect -- Apparent or Real? On the Complementary Distribution of Identificational Focus and the Verbal Particle -- Aspect, Negation and Quantifiers -- Predicates, Negative Quantifiers and Focus: Specificity and Quantificationality of N-Words
    Abstract: This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument, aspect, focusing, negation, and negative quantification, among others. The results reported concern the telicising vs. perfectivizing role of the verbal particle; the syntactic and semantic differences of verbs denoting a delimited change, and those denoting creation or coming into being; evidence of viewpoint aspect in a language with no morphological viewpoint marking; the aspectual role of non-thematic objects; the source of the ‘exhaustive identification’ function of structural focus; the interaction of negation and aspect etc
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    The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax (2008)
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press
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    ISBN: 9780199940226
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 977 Seiten)
    Edition: 2012 Online-Ressource Oxford handbooks online. Linguistics
    Edition: Oxford handbooks
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax
    DDC: 415
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Syntax ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kontrastive Syntax
    Abstract: Considering major linguistic concepts and theories, this title provides an overview of both comparative and general syntax issues.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195136517.001.0001
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    Existence: Semantics And Syntax (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402061974
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies In Linguistics And Philosophy 84
    DDC: 415
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Comparative linguistics ; Romance languages ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Konferenzschrift ; Kopula ; Nominalphrase ; Morphosyntax ; Semantik
    Abstract: This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. The papers analyze the interaction between the basic notion of existence and pervasive phenomena of natural language, such as quantification and presupposition. The contributions represent state of the art research on theoretical and comparative issues related to the expression of existence, and make extensive reference to the semantic and syntactic facts of English and of various other languages. The richness of new data and the juxtaposition of different theoretical stances bring a number of new questions into focus.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Towards a Dynamic Account of BE in English; Constituent Questions and the Copula of Specification; Predication and Equation in Copular Sentences: Russian vs. English; On Davidsonian and Kimian States; Focus and the Basic Function of Chinese Existential You-Sentences; Existential Sentences, BE, and the Genitive of Negation in Russian; Negative Quantification and Existential Sentences; Existence, Maximality, and the Semantics of Numeral Modifiers; Existential Import; Referentially Anchored Indefinites; On Singular Existential Quantifiers in Italian; Back Matter
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    Inductive dependency parsing (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402048890
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 216 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 34
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Nivre, Joakim, 1962 - Inductive dependency parsing
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Artificial intelligence ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Information systems ; Computational linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Dependenzgrammatik ; Syntaktische Analyse
    Abstract: Natural Language Parsing -- Dependency Parsing -- Inductive Dependency Parsing -- Treebank Parsing -- Conclusion
    Abstract: This book provides an in-depth description of the framework of inductive dependency parsing, a methodology for robust and efficient syntactic analysis of unrestricted natural language text. This methodology is based on two essential components: dependency-based syntactic representations and a data-driven approach to syntactic parsing. More precisely, it is based on a deterministic parsing algorithm in combination with inductive machine learning to predict the next parser action. The book includes a theoretical analysis of all central models and algorithms, as well as a thorough empirical evaluation of memory-based dependency parsing, using data from Swedish and English. Offering the reader a one-stop reference to dependency-based parsing of natural language, it is intended for researchers and system developers in the language technology field, and is also suited for graduate or advanced undergraduate education
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4889-0
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    Topic and Focus : Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402047961
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy S., v. 82
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Applied Linguistics ; Phonology ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Bedeutung ; Intonation ; Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
    Abstract: Contains a collection of papers exploring the cross-linguistic expression of topic and focus. This book presents a collection of a diverse set of perspectives from some of the leading scholars in the areas of semantics and intonation. It examines both semantic and intonational features of topic and focus from a broad typological perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; Gorka Elordieta; Constraints on Intonational Prominence of Focalized Constituents; Ardis Eschenberg; Polish Narrow Focus Constructions; David Gil; Intonation and Thematic Roles In Riau Indonesian; Matthew Gordon; The Intonational Realization of Contrastive Focus in Chickasaw; Carlos Gussenhoven; Types of Focus in English; Nancy Hedberg and Juan M. Sosa; The Prosody of Topic and Focus in Spontaneous English Dialogue; Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts; Perceiving Focus; Manfred Krifka; The Semantics of Questions and the Focusation of Answers; Chungmin Lee
    Description / Table of Contents: Contrastive (Predicate) Topic, Intonation and Scalar MeaningsKimiko Nakanishi; Prosody and Scope Interpretations of the Topic Marker WA in Japanese; Ho-Hsien Pan; Focus and Taiwanese Unchecked Tones; Elisabeth Selkirk; Bengali Intonation Revisited: An Optimally Theoretic Analysis in which FOCUS Stress Prominence Drives FOCUS Phrasing; Mark Steedman; Information-Structural Semantics for English Intonation; Klaus Von Heusinger; Discourse Structure and Intonational Phrasing;
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    ERGATIVITY (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402041884
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 65
    DDC: 415
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    ET 300
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ergativ ; Ergativ
    Abstract: The overarching theme of this volume is the formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. The book contains cutting-edge theoretical papers by top authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and bring new data to light. It contains articles that apply the most recent theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and then explore the issues that emerge. Languages investigated in the text include Basque, Georgian, and Hindi.
    Abstract: This book contains cutting edge theoretical papers by top authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and bring new data to light. It contains articles that apply the most recent theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and explore issues that emerge. The articles are written by linguists with expertise in bringing original data to bear on complex theoretical issues. The overall theme of the volume is the formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. The main sections are on the nature of ergative and absolutive case, the antipassive, split ergativity, and ergativity in languages not generally considered to be ergative. Languages investigated are Basque, Chukchi, Georgian, Halkomelem Salish, Hindi, Inuktitut, Kirundi, Malagasy, Niuean, Nuumiipuutímt, Russian, Tongan, and Warlpiri.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope; Neither Absolutive nor Ergative is Nominative or Accusative; Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case Checking; Syntactic Ergativity in Tongan; A Parametric Syntax of Aspectually Conditioned Split-Ergativity; Split Absolutive; Deriving Split Ergativity in the Progressive; On 'Ergativity' in Halkomelem Salish; Tree-Geometric Relational Hierarchies and Nuumiipuutímt (Nez Perce) Case; Antipassive Morphology and Case Assignment in Inuktitut; The Ergativity Parameter: A View from Antipassive; Ergativity and Change in Inuktitut
    Description / Table of Contents: Ergativity in Austronesian LanguagesThe Split Verb as a Source of Morphological Ergativity
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4188-8
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    Aspectual Inquiries (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402030338
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 62
    DDC: 415/.63
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    ET 480
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Aspekt
    Abstract: The study of the linguistic reflexes of aspect has been an active field of research in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics (including discourse theory) and acquisition studies. However, communication and dissemination of results across these various subfields has often been indirect. The different angles brought together give us a comprehensive picture of the representation of aspect in the mind/brain of the speaker. The papers in this volume represent the results of a workshop on the syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect held in 2002 whose purpose was to foment active cross-disciplinary communication. A number of the papers examine the syntactic representation of lexical or situation aspect, while others focus on the syntactic interaction of lexical aspect with grammatical aspect, and of grammatical aspect and tense. Other papers examine the role of aspect in discourse representations, while a third group of papers reports on results of empirical studies on the acquisition of aspect in both first and second language acquisition, and patterns of loss of morphosyntactic reflexes of aspect in language attrition.
    Description / Table of Contents: Issues and Interfaces in the Study of Aspect; Topic or Aspect; Some Notes on the Syntax of Quantity; Articulated vPS and the Computation of Aspectual Classes; Flavors of v; Semi-Copulas; PP, FP and the Telic/Atelic Distinction in Norwegian Motion Constructions; The Spatio-Temporal Path and Aspectual Composition; Aspect and Temporal Modification; Aspectual Entities and Tense in Discourse; Stage Structure and Stage Salience for Event Semantics; Aspectual Viewpoints, Speech Act Functions and Discourse Structure; Child Non-Finite Clauses and the Mood-Aspect Connection; Imperfect Imperfectives
    Description / Table of Contents: L2 Acquisition of Aspectual Distinctions in PolishAspect Lost, Aspect Regained; Tracking the Elusive Imperfect in Adult L2 Acquisition
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-449) and index , The papers in this volume represent the results of the Workshop on the Syntax, Semantics, and Acquisition of Aspect, held at the University of Iowa in May 2002 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3033-9
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    Roots and Patterns : Hebrew Morpho-syntax (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402032448
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 63
    DDC: 492.456
    RVK:
    EM 5830
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Semitic Languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Hebräisch ; Morphosyntax ; Wortwurzel ; Hebräisch ; Morphosyntax ; Wortwurzel
    Abstract: In-depth investigation of Hebrew verb morphology in light of cutting edge theories of morphology and lexical semantics An original theory about the semantic content of roots An account of how roots function in word-formation A wide empirical basis containing a complete corpus of verb-creating roots in Hebrew
    Abstract: This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically. The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are morphologically transparent. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb. While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists. The book is of wide interest to students of many branches of linguistics, including morphology, syntax and lexical semantics, as well as of to students Semitic languages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Roots: Where Syntax, Morphology, and the Lexicon Meet; The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory?; The Contents of the Root: Multiple Contextualized Meaning in Hebrew; The Morphological Consequences of MCM: An Intermediate Summary; Roots Across Patterns in Hebrew; A Theory of Hebrew Verbal Morpho-Syntax; Roots in Word-Formation: The Root Hypothesis Revisited
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-281) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3244-7
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    Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems (2005)
    Dordrecht : D. Reidel Publishing Company
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    ISBN: 9781402041105
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Texts And Studies In Linguistics And Philosophy 6
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 6
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Series Statement: Springer-11648
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Mass terms
    RVK:
    ET 575
    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Non-Singular Reference: Some Preliminaries -- Some Bits and Pieces -- Some Remarks about Mass Nouns and Plurality -- The Indeterminacy of Mass Predication -- Sharvy on Mass Predication -- Four Ontologies -- On the Adequacy of a Type Ontology -- Theories of Matter -- On the Usefulness of Quantities -- An Analysis of Mass Terms and Amount Terms -- Afterthoughts on Mass Terms -- The Proper Treatment of Mass Terms in English -- Amounts and Measures of Amount -- Mass Terms, Count Nouns, and Change -- Stuff and Things -- Quantity and Quantification -- Sameness and Individuation -- Ensembles and the Formal Semantic Properties of Mass Terms -- Predication and Matter -- A Bibliography of Recent Work on Mass Terms -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases 'much', 'an amount of', 'a little', etc. The typical indefinite article for them is 'some' (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers 'each', 'every', 'some', 'few', 'many'; and they use 'a(n)' as the indefinite article. They can, unlike the mass terms, take numerals as prefixes. Mass terms seem not to have a plural. Semantically, philo­ sophers have characterized count terms as denoting (classes of?) indi­ vidual objects, whereas what mass terms denote are cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual objects, or when they wish to reidentify a particular already introduced into discoursc. Given a "space appropriate" to a count term C, it makes sense to ask how many C's there are in that space.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4110-5
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