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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402064975
    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
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    ISBN: 9781402065484
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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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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402059353
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    DDC: 404/.2019
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Language and languages ; Consciousness ; Kognition ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Psycholinguistik
    Abstract: This work has a uniquely cognitive-functional perspective on bi-lingualism. This means that it makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. The authors examine too some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism, such as, among others, gender systems in the bilingual mind, synergic concepts, and ontological categorization.
    Abstract: A unique feature of this book is that chapters favor that line of cognitive linguistics which makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. Also, chapters add some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism to the well-known ones, such as gender systems in the bilingual mind, context and task, synergic concepts, blending, the relationship between lexical categorization and ontological categorization among others.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Neurofunctional Components of the Bilingual Cognitive System; Synergic Concepts in the Bilingual Mind; Matrix: Schematic Universals. How Many Minds Does a Bilingual Have?; Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon: A Psycholinguistic Approach; Bilingualism and Cognitive Arithmetic; The Role of Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Experiences in Bilinguals' Divergent Thinking; Task and Context Effects in Bilingual Lexical Processing; Representation and Skill in Second Language Learners and Proficient Bilinguals
    Description / Table of Contents: Second Language Gender System Affects First Language Gender ClassificationBeyond Language: Childhood Bilingualism Enhances High-Level Cognitive Functions; Cross-Linguistic and Cognitive Structures in the Acquisition of WH-Questions in an Indonesian-Italian Bilingual Child
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781402060465
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 38
    DDC: 492.70973
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Information storage and retrieval systems ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Arabic languages ; Computational linguistics ; Semitic languages ; Arabisch ; Morphologie
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive overview of computational approaches to Arabic morphology. The subtitle aims to reflect that widely different computational approaches to the Arabic morphological system have been proposed. The book provides a showcase of the most advanced language technologies applied to one of the most vexing problems in linguistics. It covers knowledge-based and empirical-based approaches.
    Abstract: The morphology of Arabic poses special challenges to computational natural language processing systems. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute to making computational approaches to Arabic very challenging. Indeed many computational linguists across the world have taken up this challenge over time, and many of the researchers with a track record in this research area have contributed to this book. The book's subtitle aims to reflect that widely different computational approaches to the Arabic morphological system have been proposed. These accounts fall into two main paradigms: the knowledge-based and the empirical. Since morphological knowledge plays an essential role in any higher-level understanding and processing of Arabic text, the book also features a part on the role of Arabic morphology in larger applications, i.e. Information Retrieval (IR) and Machine Translation (MT).
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods; On Arabic Transliteration; Issues in Arabic Morphological Analysis; A Syllable-based Account of Arabic Morphology; Inheritance-based Approach to Arabic Verbal Root-and-Pattern Morphology; Arabic Computational Morphology: A Trade-off Between Multiple Operations and Multiple Stems; Grammar-Lexis Relations in the Computational Morphology of Arabic; Learning to Identify Semitic Roots; Automatic Processing of Modern Standard Arabic Text; Supervised and Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Morphology
    Description / Table of Contents: Memory-based Morphological Analysis and Part-of-speech Tagging of ArabicLight Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval; Adapting Morphology for Arabic Information Retrieval*; Arabic Morphological Representations for Machine Translation; Arabic Morphological Generation and its Impact on the Quality of Machine Translation to Arabic; Back Matter
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402059582
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 83
    DDC: 401/.43/0285
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Artificial intelligence ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Computational linguistics ; Semantics
    Abstract: This book provides an in-depth view of the current issues, problems and approaches in the computation of meaning as expressed in language. Aimed at linguists, computer scientists, and logicians with an interest in the computation of meaning, this book focuses on two main topics in recent research in computational semantics. The first topic is the definition and use of underspecified semantic representations, i.e. formal structures that represent part of the meaning of a linguistic object while leaving other parts unspecified. The second topic discussed is semantic annotation. Annotated corpora have become an indispensable resource both for linguists and for developers of language and speech technology, especially when used in combination with machine learning methods. The annotation in corpora has only marginally addressed semantic information, however, since semantic annotation methodologies are still in their infancy. This book discusses the development and application of such methodologies.
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    Dordrecht : Springer | [Berlin : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402058172
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 37
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Computer science ; Computational linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gesprochene Sprache ; Automatische Spracherkennung ; Dialogsystem ; Evaluation
    Abstract: In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology. This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Speech and Speaker Recognition Evaluation; Evaluation of Speech Synthesis; Modelling and Evaluating Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Talking Animated Interface Agents; Evaluating Part-of-Speech Tagging and Parsing; General Principles of User-Oriented Evaluation; An Overview of Evaluation Methods in TREC Ad Hoc Information Retrieval and TREC Question Answering; Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær and Wolfgang Minker; Linguistic Resources, Development, and Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards International Standards for Language ResourcesBack Matter
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402057847
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 37
    DDC: 404.2083
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Germanic languages ; Romance languages ; Beispielsammlung ; Kind ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Sprachwechsel ; Deutsch ; Sprachwechsel ; Italienisch
    Abstract: This volume demonstrates that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. It provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, but also in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data.
    Abstract: The goal of this volume is to prove that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. Analyzing a rich corpus of spontaneous child data, the author provides detailed empirical evidence for latest minimalist assumptions on the architecture of mind and confirms that code-switching is only constrained by the two grammars of the languages involved. The data show that the quantity of mixing in children depends on an individual choice rather than on language development, language dominance, or other factors. Besides critically reviewing the literature on language mixing in children and adults, this work offers a thorough grammatical analysis of the code-switching data of five Italian/German children. The book provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, but also in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Bilingualism and Bilingual First Language Acquisition; Early mixing; The theoretical framework; Code-switching; Data; The analysis of early mixing; The analysis of code-switching; Findings and conclusions; Back Matter
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781402058332
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 36
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Computational linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wilks, Yorick 1939-
    Abstract: Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This book celebrates Wilks's career from the perspective of his peers in original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area. This volume forms a two-part set together with Words and Intelligence I: Selected Works by Yorick Wilks, by the same editors.
    Abstract: Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence has extends to many areas of these fields and includes contributions to Machine Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective of his peers. It consists of original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area. His work has spanned over four decades but is shown to be pertinent to recent developments in language proc
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Yorick Alexander Wilks: A Meaningful Journey; Metaphor, Semantic Preferences and Context-Sensitivity; Towards a New Generation of Language Resources in the Semantic Web Vision; Information Access and Natural Language Processing: A Stimulating Dialogue; Three Steps in Wilks Work: From Theory to Resources to Practice; Preference Syntagmatics; Historical Ontologies; An Amorphous Object Must be Cut by a Blunt Tool; Homer, the Author of The Iliad and the Computational-Linguistic Turn; Philosophical Engineering; Machine Translation and the World Wide Web
    Description / Table of Contents: Semantic Primitives: The Tip of the IcebergMolecules, Meaning and Post-Modernist Semantics
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    Dordrecht : Springer | [Heidelberg] : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402061769
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 71
    DDC: 415
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Greek philology ; Romance languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Kontrolle ; Raising ; Generative Syntax ; GB-Theorie ; Minimalist program
    Abstract: Raising and control have figured in every comprehensive model of syntax for forty years. Recent renewed attention to them makes this collection a timely one. The contributions, representing some of the most exciting recent work, address many fundamental research questions. What beside the canonical constructions might be subject to raising or control analyses? What constructions traditionally treated as raising or control might not actually be so? What classes of control must be recognized? How do tense, agreement, or clausal completeness figure in their distribution? The chapters address these and other relevant issues, and bring new empirical data into focus.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Looking Out Over the Horizon; Raising in DP Revisited; The Late Development of Raising: What Children Seem to Think about Seem; Raising of Major Arguments in Korean (and Japanese); Not Really ECM, not Exactly Control: The 'Quasi-ECM' Construction in Greek; Control in Modern Greek: It's Another Good Move; Finiteness and Control in Greek; Moving Forward with Romanian Backward Control and Raising; Agreement and Flotation in Partial and Inverse Partial Control Configurations; Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese and Finnish: They are not Derived by Movement
    Description / Table of Contents: On (Non-)Obligatory ControlControl and Wh-infinitivals; Control via Selection; Movement-Resistant Aspects of Control; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402043086
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 66
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; San Lucas Quiavini ; Zapotekisch ; Syntax
    Abstract: San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne's (1992) antisymmetry program. The book also examines the consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood.
    Abstract: San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement: verbs and clearly phrasal constituents behave identically in a number of syntactic constructions, and the ordering of verbal morphemes is problematic for standard assumptions of verbal head movement. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne’s (1992) Antisymmetry program. This work also examines consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, question formation, and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood.
    Description / Table of Contents: An Introduction to San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec; Background and Theoretical Assumptions; The Syntax of Verb Raising in SLQZ: Arguments for VP Raising; Further Consequences of VP-Remnant Movement: Some Common Negation Structures in SLQZ; More on the Structure of the Left Periphery: The Syntax of Questions; The Interaction of Tense and Aspect in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec;
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    ISBN: 9781402046902
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 36
    DDC: 489.35
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Neugriechisch ; Fremdsprachenlernen ; Satzerzeugung ; Weiterführender Nebensatz
    Abstract: This book argues in favour of cross-linguistic variation in sentence processing by providing empirical data from ambiguity resolution in Greek as L1 and L2. It is maintained that in highly inflected languages, like Greek, initial parsing decisions are determined by the interaction of morphological and lexical cues rather than by universal parsing principles.
    Abstract: This book argues in favour of cross-linguistic variation in sentence processing by providing empirical data from ambiguity resolution in Greek as L1 and L2. It is maintained that in highly inflected languages, like Greek, initial parsing decisions are determined by the interaction of morphological and lexical cues rather than by universal parsing principles. During the initial parse, discourse-level information is constrained by lexical considerations, which indicates that the human sentence processor is a multi-stage mechanism. The L2 data show that parsing preferences are not totally determined by frequency records and that L2 sentence processing is mainly guided by lexical information and less so by other sources of information.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Sentence Processing Models; Aspects of the Grammar of Greek; RC Attachment Preferences in Isolated Sentences; Context Effects in RC Attachment Preferences; Ambiguity Resolution Strategies in a Second Language; Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781402043444
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    Series Statement: STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 34
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    Keywords: Germanic Languages ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Deutsch ; Kasus ; Satzerzeugung
    Abstract: The German language, due to its verb-final nature, relatively free order of constituents and morphological Case system, poses challenges for models of human syntactic processing which have mainly been developed on the basis of head-initial languages with little or no morphological Case. The verb-final order means that the parser has to make predictions about the input before receiving the verb. What are these predictions? What happens when the predictions turn out to be wrong? Furthermore, the German morphological Case system contains ambiguities. How are these ambiguities resolved under the normal time pressure in comprehension? Based on theoretical as well as experimental work, the present monograph develops a detailed account of the processing steps that underly language comprehension. At its core is a model of linking noun phrases to arguments of the verb in the developing phrase structure and checking the result with respect to features such as person, number and Case. This volume contains detailed introductions to human syntactic processing as well as to German syntax which will be helpful especially for readers less familiar with psycholinguistics and with Germanic.
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCING THE HUMAN SENTENCE PROCESSING MECHANISM; WORD ORDER AND CASE IN GERMAN; FIRST-PASS PREFERENCES IN SYNTACTIC-FUNCTION AMBIGUITIES; THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF CASE; A MODEL OF LINKING AND CHECKING; CASE CHECKING AND THE HSPM I: ON LEXICAL REACCESS; CASE CHECKING AND THE HSPM II: THE ROLE OF WORKING MEMORY; IN DEFENSE OF SERIAL PARSING; SUMMARY:LINKING,CHECKING,ANDBEYOND
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    ISBN: 9781402041884
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 65
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    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
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    ISBN: 9781402044885
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    Series Statement: Studies in natural language and linguistic theory v. 67
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Comparative Linguistics ; Phonology ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Greek philology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Balkansprachen ; Morphosyntax ; Balkansprachen ; Sprachbund ; Morphosyntax
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    ISBN: 9781402042461
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 193
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Mathematics_$xHistory ; Linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Dee, John 1527-1608
    Abstract: "The career of John Dee has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and "angel magic"), seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and his collaborators and colleagues"--Dust jacket
    Abstract: "The career of the sixteenth-century English mathematician and natural philosopher John Dee (1527-1609) has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and ""angel magic"") seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and his collaborators and colleagues. The essays in the volume present new views on the nature of Dee's various projects, as well as the uses to which he put the books and manuscripts in his library at Mortlake (one of the largest private collections in Elizabethan England)."
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; JOHN DEE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED; WINGS (OR STAIRS) TO THE HEAVENS; LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON?; JOHN DEE AND ASTROLOGY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND; JOHN DEE'S INTEREST IN THE APPLICATION OF NAUTICAL SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND LAW TO ENGLISH NAVAL AFFAIRS; JOHN DEE'S COLUMBIAN ENCOUNTER; JOHN DEE AND THE KABBALAH; THE ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN DEE'S MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA; JOHN DEE AND THE MAGIC TABLES IN THE BOOK OF SOYGA; PARACELSUS, SCRYING, AND THE LINGUA ADAMICA; JOHN DEE'S ANGELIC CONVERSATIONS AND THE ARS NOTORIA
    Description / Table of Contents: THE NEXUS OF ANGELOLOGY, ESCHATOLOGY, AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHYIN JOHN DEE'S ANGEL CONVERSATIONS AND LIBRARYABSENT PRESENCES; IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EDWARD KELLEY; ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO "JOHN DEE'S LIBRARY CATALOGUE"; RECENT WORKS ON JOHN DEE (1988-2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402044854
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    Series Statement: Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics v. 35
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    Keywords: Comparative Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Semantik ; Spracherwerb
    Abstract: Contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. This volume addresses a variety of phenomena such as: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Mismatches' of Form and Interpretation; Watching Noun Phrases Emerge: Seeking Compositionality; Cross-Linguistic Acquisition of Complement Tense; Everybody Knows; The Effect of Context on Children'S Interpretations of Universally Quantified Sentences; Structure and Meaning in the Acquisition of Scope; Time for Children: An Integrated Stage Model of Aspect and Tense; State Change and Temporal Reference in Inuktitut Child Language; Temporal Adverbials and Early Tense and Aspect Markers in the Acquisition of Dutch; On Finiteness; Functions of Finiteness in Child Language
    Description / Table of Contents: Additive Particles and Scope Marking in Child German(Un)Stressed ook in Child Dutch
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    ISBN: 9781402047961
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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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    ISBN: 9781402047466
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    Series Statement: Text, speech, and language technology
    DDC: 006.54
    Keywords: Computational Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Text processing (Computer science ; Information storage and retrieval systems ; Digitale Sprachverarbeitung ; Frage-Antwort-System
    Abstract: "This new Springer volume provides a comprehensive and detailed look at current approaches to automated question answering. The level of presentation is suitable for newcomers to the field as well as for professionals wishing to study this area and/or to build practical QA systems. The book can serve as a ""how-to"" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers. It can also be used to teach graduate courses in Computer Science, Information Science and related disciplines."
    Abstract: Automated question answering - the ability of a machine to answer questions, simple or complex, posed in ordinary human language - is one of the most exciting technological developments. This book looks at the various approaches to automated question answering. It serves as a "how-to" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Some Advanced Features of LCC's Poweranswer; A Statistical Approach For Open Domain Question Answering; Coreference in Q&A; Questions and Intentions; Question Answering as Dialogue with Data; Coping With Alternate Formulations of Questions And Answers; Sentence Ranking Using Keywords and Meta-Keywords; Question Answering By Passage Selection; Query Modulation For Web-Based Question Answering; Question Answering by Predictive Annotation; Question Answering Supported By Multiple Levels Of Information Extraction; How to Select an Answer String?
    Description / Table of Contents: Evaluating Question Answering System PerformanceEvaluating Interactive Question Answering; Habitability in Question-Answering Systems; Question Answering: Technology for Intelligence Analysis; Reverse-Engineering Question/Answer Collections From Ordinary Text; New Directions in Question Answering; Back Matter
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 31
    DDC: 415.9
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Computational Linguistics ; Computer science ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wortlänge ; Wortlänge
    Abstract: Required reading for computational linguists, this work contains a series of important contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length. The book includes an introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three crucial fields of study in linguistics: linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and database design. Together they provide a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language.
    Abstract: This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor's preface. The book's first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language and word length studies. The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introductory Remarks: on the Science of Language in Light of the Language of Science; History and Methodology of Word Length Studies; Information Content of Words in Texts; Zero-Syllable Words in Determining Word Length; Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of Content Words and Function Words; On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, and Word Frequencies in Slovenian; Text Corpus as an Abstract Data Structure; About Word Length Distribution; The Fall of the Jers in the Light of Menzerath's Law; Towards the Foundations of Menzerath's Law; Aspects of the Typology of Slavic Languages
    Description / Table of Contents: Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quantitative Text AnalysesWord Length and Word Frequency; Developing the Croatian National Corpus and Beyond; About Word Length Counting in Serbian; Word-Length Distribution in Present-Day Lower Sorbian Newspaper Texts; Towards a Unified Derivation of Some Linguistic Laws; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402048890
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    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
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    ISBN: 9781402032448
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 63
    DDC: 492.456
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    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
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    ISBN: 9781402035968
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 64
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wortbildung
    Abstract: This is the most comprehensive bookto date on word formation in terms of scope of topics, schools and theoretical positions.All contributions were written by the leading scholars in their respective areas.
    Abstract: This volume traces the many strands of study in the field of word formation that have developed since the seminal work of Marchand and Lees in the 1960s. In mapping the state of the art, it avoids a biased approach by presenting different, but mutually complementary frameworks within which research into word formation has taken place. It covers the historical development of theories of word formation within generative grammar, and affords a solid introduction to the treatment of word formation in cognitive grammar, natural morphology, optimality theory, Lexeme Morpheme Base Morphology, onomasiological theory, and other recent frameworks. Each topic is presented by an expert who has contributed significantly to the field. In addition to surveying theoretical developments from both European and North American perspectives, it looks specifically at individual English word formation processes (derivation, compounding, conversion) and reviews some of the ways in which they have been analyzed since Marchand's comprehensive treatment nearly five decades ago.
    Description / Table of Contents: Basic Terminology; Word-Formation and Phonology; Word-Formation and Inflectional Morphology; Word-Formation and Syntax; Hans Marchand and the Marchandeans; Chomsky's Remarks and the Transformationalist Hypothesis; The Lexicalist Approach to Word-Formation and the Notion of the Lexicon; Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology; Onomasiological Approach to Word-Formation; Cognitive Approach to Word-Formation; Word-Formation in Natural Morphology; Word-Formation in Optimality Theory; Productivity: Theories; Constraints on Productivity; Lexicalization and Institutionalization
    Description / Table of Contents: English Word-Formation ProcessesThe Latest Trends In English Word-Formation
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    Series Statement: Yearbook of Morphology
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Comparative Linguistics ; Phonology ; Sign Language
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    ISBN: 9781402026379
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 25
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    Keywords: Applied Linguistics ; Computational Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Sprachverarbeitung ; Phonetik
    Abstract: Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community. Robust recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech in varied environments, good comprehensibility and naturalness of expressive speech synthesis are goals that cannot be achieved without a change of paradigm. This book argues for interdisciplinary communication and cooperation in problem-solving in general, and discusses the interaction between speech and language engineering and phonetics in particular. With a number of reports on innovative speech technology research as well as more theoretical discussions, it addresses the practical, scientific and sometimes the philosophical problems that stand in the way of cross-disciplinary collaboration and illuminates some of the many possible ways forward. Audience: Researchers and professionals in speech technology and computational linguists.
    Description / Table of Contents: Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology; Can Phonetic Knowledge be Used to Improve the Performance of Speech Recognisers and Synthesisers?; Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: Towards the Common Ground?; Phonetic Time Maps; Introducing Phonetically Motivated, Heterogeneous Information into Automatic Speech Recognition; Introducing Contextual Transcription Rules in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition; From Here to Utility; Pronunciation Modeling; Phonetic Knowledge in Text-to-Speech Synthesis; Is Phonetic Knowledge of Any Use for Speech Technology?
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    ISBN: 9781402030338
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 62
    DDC: 415/.63
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    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
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    ISBN: 9781402032325
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 32
    DDC: 401.9
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Germanic Languages ; Romance Languages ; Semantics ; Slavic languages ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Tempus ; Kontrastive Linguistik ; Aspekt
    Abstract: This book offers both a retrospective view on how theories of aspectuality have developed over the past 30 years, and presents current, new directions of aspectuality research.The articles in this book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of the following languages: English and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nahk-Daghestanian languages.
    Abstract: The aim of this book is two-fold: to offer a retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality and temporality as well as to develop new perspectives on the future development of the field. Articles contain overviews of the development of the field and/or present the state of the art of current research, suggesting new and upcoming lines of research. An important theme throughout the book is typological variation, and the relevance of empirical data for theory formation. Together the articles in the book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of English, and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nakh-Daghestanian languages. Audience: Scholars and students of aspectuality in semantics and at the syntax-semantics interface.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introducing Perspectives on Aspect; Aspectual Composition: Surveying the Ingredients; Quantized Direct Objects Don't Delimit After All; Quantification and Aspect; Prepositions and Results in Italian and English: An Analysis from Event Decomposition; Atelicity, Pluractionality, and Adverbial Quantification; On Accumulating and Having IT All; Adverbs of Completion in an Event Semantics; Eventualities, Grammar, and Language Diversity; From Habituals to Futures; Perfective Aspect and Accomplishment Situations in Mandarin Chinese; The Past Perfective and Present Perfect in African-American English
    Description / Table of Contents: Tense and Aspectual be in Child African American EnglishUnmarked Already
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 27
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    Keywords: Computational Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Multimedia systems ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sprache ; Information ; Präsentation
    Abstract: Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive information presentations, taking into account the specifics about the user, such as needs, interests and knowledge, and engaging in a collaborative interaction that helps the retrieval of relevant information and its understanding on the part of the user. The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent works on Intelligent Information Presentation and a view of the challenges ahead.
    Abstract: Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive information presentations, taking into account the specifics about the user, such as needs, interests and knowledge, and engaging in a collaborative interaction that helps the retrieval of relevant information and its understanding on the part of the user. The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent works on Intelligent Information Presentation and a view of the challenges ahead
    Description / Table of Contents: Greta. A Believable Embodied Conversational Agent; Multimodal Communication in Virtual Environments; Generating Embodied Information Presentations; Resource-Adaptive Personal Navigation; Intelligent Interactive Information Presentation for Cultural Tourism; Supporting Mobile Users through Adaptive Information Presentation; Autobriefer: A System for Authoring Narrated Briefings; Generating Tailored Worked-Out Problem Solutions to Help Students Learn from Examples; Multilingual Personalized Information Objects; Generating Multimedia Presentations from Plain Text to Screen Play
    Description / Table of Contents: Intelligent Information Presentation for Tutoring SystemsMaintaining Visibility Constraints for View Management in 3D User Interfaces; Simulation Meets Hollywood; Presentation Technologies for People with Disabilities; Fusion and Coordination for Multimodal Interactive Information Presentation
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    ISBN: 9781402039096
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 192
    DDC: 914.045
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    Keywords: History ; Humanities ; Linguistics ; Regional planning ; Russland ; Reisebericht ; Westeuropabild
    Abstract: Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary; Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys; Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller; Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands; Botkin: Letters on Spain; Herzen: Letters from France and Italy; Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions; Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border
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    Series Statement: Yearbook of Morphology
    DDC: 415
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Computational Linguistics ; Phonology ; Psycholinguistics ; Morphologie
    Abstract: Discusses several theoretical issues such as: the role of inflectional paradigms in morphological analysis, the differences between words and affixes, and the adequacy of competing models of word structure. This work also discusses the role of phonological factors in shaping complex words
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; JAMES P. BLEVINS /Word-based declensions in Estonian; HANS-OLAV ENGER /Do affixes have meaning? Polarity in the Toten dialect ofNorwegian meets morphological theory; JANET GRIJZENHOUT and MARTINA PENKE /On the interaction of phonology and morphology in languageacquisition and German and Dutch Broca's Aphasia: the caseof inflected verbs; ANDREW KOONTZ-GARBODEN /On the typology of state/change of state alternations; CHRISTIAN LEHMANN /Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation; MARY PASTER /Pulaar verbal extensions and phonologically driven affix order
    Description / Table of Contents: ANDREA D. SIMS /Declension hopping in dialectal Croatian: Two predictionsof frequencyGREGORY T. STUMP /Referrals and morphomes in Sora verb inflection; ANDREW CARSTAIRS-McCARTHY /Affixes, stems and allomorphic conditioning in paradigmfunction morphology; GREGORY T. STUMP /Some criticisms of Carstairs-McCarthy's conclusions; Book reviews; Paul Boucher (ed.), Many Morphologies (Peter Arkadiev); Danielle Corbin, Pierre Corbin and Martine Temple (eds.), Lexique 16 (Claudio Iacobini); Laurie Bauer, A Glossary of Morphology (Geert Booij)
    Description / Table of Contents: Piet van Sterkenburg (ed.), Linguistics Today - Facing a Greater Challenge (Geert Booij)Book Information; Proceedings of the 4th Mediterranean Morpholohy Meeting, Catania, 21-23 September 2004
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    ISBN: 9781402039331
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 30
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    Keywords: Computational Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Multimedia systems ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Computer system performance ; Diskursanalyse
    Abstract: The main topic of this volume is natural multimodal interaction. The book is unique in that it brings together a great many contributions regarding aspects of natural and multimodal interaction written by many of the important actors in the field. Topics addressed include talking heads, conversational agents, tutoring systems, multimodal communication, machine learning, architectures for multimodal dialogue systems, systems evaluation, and data annotation.
    Abstract: The main topic of this volume is natural multimodal interaction. The book is unique in that it brings together a great many contributions regarding aspects of natural and multimodal interaction written by many of the important actors in the field. It is a timely update of Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems by Björn Granström, David House and Inger Karlsson and, at the same time, it presents a much broader overview of the field. Its 17 chapters provide a broad and detailed impression of where the fairly new field of natural and multimodal interactivity engineering stands today. Topics addressed include talking heads, conversational agents, tutoring systems, multimodal communication, machine learning, architectures for multimodal dialogue systems, systems evaluation, and data annotation. This title will prove very valuable to scientists, researchers and practitioners working in the fields of natural interactive systems, multimodal systems, conversational agents, spoken dialogue systems, natural language processing applications, advanced human-computer interfaces, analysis of multimodal data, evaluation of multimodal systems, and educational systems.
    Description / Table of Contents: Natural and Multimodal Interactivity Engineering - Directions and Needs; Social Dialongue with Embodied Conversational Agents; A First Experiment in Engagement for Human-Robot Interaction in Hosting Activities; Form; On the Relationships Among Speech, Gestures, and Object Manipulation in Virtual Environments: Initial Evidence; Analysing Multimodal Communication; Do Oral Messages Help Visual Search?; Geometric and Statistical Approaches to Audiovisual Segmentation; The Psychology and Technology of Talking Heads: Applications in Language Learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Effective Interaction with Talking Animated Agents an Dialogue SystemsControlling the Gaze of Conversational Agents; Mind: A Context-Based Multimodal Interpretation Framework in Conversational Systems; A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Miamm - A Multimodal Dialogue System Using Haptics; Adaptive Human-Computer Dialogue; Machine Learning Approaches to Human Dialogue Modelling
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    Series Statement: Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library 24
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Logic ; Computational Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Mathematische Logik
    Abstract: Develops a hybrid architecture that allows to incorporate anaphora resolution into grammatical deduction. After giving an introduction into Type Logical Grammar in general, this book discusses the formal properties of this connective
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables; 1 TYPE LOGICAL GRAMMAR THE FRAMEWORK; 2 THE PROBLEM OF ANAPHORA; 3 LAMBEK CALCULUS WITH LIMITED CONTRACTION; 4 PRONOUNS AND QUANTIFICATION; 6 INDEFINITES; References; Index
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 9
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    Keywords: Translators (Computer programs) ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Natural language processing (Computer science).
    Abstract: Introduction: Learnability and Linguistic Theory -- Learning Theory and Natural Language -- The Plausibility of Rationalism -- On Applying Learnability Theory to the Rationalism-Empiricism Controversy -- On Certain Substitutes for Negative Data -- Markedness and Language Development -- Learning the Periphery -- Some Problems in the Parametric Analysis of Learnability -- From Cognition to Thematic Roles: The Projection Principle as an Acquisition Mechanism -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The impetus for this volume developed from the 1982 University of Western Ontario Learnability Workshop, which was organized by the editors and sponsored by that University's Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Cognitive Science. The volume e~plores the import of learnability theory for contemporary linguistic theory, focusing on foundational learning-theoretic issues associated with the parametrized Government-Binding (G-B) framework. Written by prominent re­ searchers in the field, all but two of the eight contributions are pre­ viously unpublished. The editor's introduction provides an overview that interrelates the separate papers and elucidates the foundational issues addressed by the volume. Osherson, Stob, and Weinstein's "Learning Theory and Natural Language" first appeared in Cognition (1984); Matthews's "The Plausi­ bility of Rationalism" was published in the Journal of Philosophy (1984). The editors would like to thank the publishers for permission to reprint these papers. Mr. Marin Marinov assisted with the preparation of the indices for the volume. VB ROBERT 1. MATTHEWS INTRODUCTION: LEARNABILITY AND LINGUISTIC THEORY 1. INTRODUCTION Formal learning theory, as the name suggests, studies the learnability of different classes of formal objects (languages, grammars, theories, etc.) under different formal models of learning. The specification of such a model, which specifies (a) a learning environment, (b) a learn­ ing strategy, and (c) a criterion for successful learning, determines (d) a class of formal objects, namely, the class that can be acquired to the level of the specified success criterion by a learner implementing the specified strategy in the specified enviroment.
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 115
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 115
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Linguistics ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Style.
    Abstract: Discourses of the Island -- Discourses of the Nerve -- Experiment and Fiction -- Hypotyposes -- The Mythological Transformations of Renaissance Science: Physical Allegory and the Crisis of Alchemical Narrative -- “What Ever Happened to Ethics?” -- Nature as Construct -- “Observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story”: Moral Insanity and Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ -- Conceptualizing Technology in Literary Terms: Some American Examples -- Literature and the Authority of Technology -- “A Place to Step Further”: Jack Spicer’s Quantum Poetics -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: On the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Boston Studies series in 1985, Cohen, Elkana, and Wartofsky wrote in another preface such as this that the time had come for establishing institutions supporting a vision to which the series had been devoted since its inception, namely that of a more broadly conceived, interdisciplinary study of the history and philosophy of science: In recent years it has become evident that, in addition to serious and competent disciplinary work on the specifics of the History of Science, the Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Science, there is now a growing need to develop a problem­ oriented approach which no longer distinguishes between these three specialties in a cut and dried way. Since the time has come for such an approach, the institutional tools should be provided. A way to do so would be . . . to organize colloquia and to publish good papers stemming from these, without attempting to organize the papers under the separate rubrics of History of Philosophy or Sociology of Science; and moreover to consider it natural that any fundamental issue of the foundations of the sciences, or their place in a culture and the way they are institutionalized in the societal web, is still our concern, no matter whether we are a professional scientist, historian or philosopher who deals with the problem (p. vii).
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 15
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Romance languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: The Null Subject Parameter and Parametric Theory -- Arbitrary Null Objects and Unselective Binding -- Anaphoric AGR -- Two Italian Dialects and the Null Subject Parameter -- On the Notion “Null Anaphor” in Chamorro -- Pro-Drop in Chinese: A Generalized Control Theory -- The Null Subject Parameter in Language Acquisition -- Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing -- The Null Subject Parameter in Modern Arabic Dialects -- Prepositional Infinitival Constructions in European Portuguese -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Languages.
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: 1 A Selective History of Modern Binding Theory -- 2 The Logical Structure of Reciprocal Sentences in English -- 3 Complement Object Deletion -- 4 Remarks on Coreference -- 5 Disjoint Reference and Wh-Trace -- 6 On Two Recent Treatments of Disjoint Reference -- 7 A Note on Illicit NP Movement -- 8 A Note on Anaphora and Double Objects -- 9 On the Necessity of Binding Conditions -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The articles collected in this book are concerned with the treatment of anaphora within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Ex­ tended Standard Theory' (EST). Since the inception of this theory, and virtually since the inception of generative grammar, anaphora has been a central topic of investigation. In current research, it has, perhaps, become even more central, as a major focus of study in such areas as syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, and language acquisition. Beginning in the early 1970's, and continuing to the present, Chomsky has developed a comprehensive syntactic theory of anaphora. The articles here are all related to stages in the development of that theory, and can best be understood in relation to that development. For that reason, Chapter 1 presents a historical survey of Chomsky's EST proposals on anaphora, along with brief indications of how the present articles fit into that history. Some of the articles here (e.g. Chapters 4, 8, and 9) proposed extensions of Chomsky's basic ideas to a wider range of phenomena.
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 17
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    Keywords: Indic philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Indians—Languages.
    Abstract: One The Issues — Analytical and Theoretical -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Analytical Problem -- 2. Theoretical Proposals -- 3. Consequences -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes for Chapter One -- Two Luiseño Features: Background -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Relevant Morphology -- 2. The Feature ADAFF -- 3. The Feature NUM -- 4. The Feature ASP -- 5. Complexities to RIGHT AN -- 6. Combinatorial Complexities -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes for Chapter Two -- Appendix to Chapter Two -- Three Agreement and Anti-Agreement -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Some Facts and Simple Constituents -- 2. The Representation of Constituents -- 3. Facts about Argument Structures -- 4. Incorporation -- 5. A First Look at Category Type -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes for Chapter Three -- Appendix to Chapter Three -- Four The Proposition -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. The Propositional Radical -- 3. The Proposition: Part One -- 4. The Result -- 5. The Relationship between the Functor and the Formal Value -- 6. The Category Type -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes for Chapter Four -- Five The Utility of the Proposition -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Aux Analyzed -- 4. The Position of the Aux -- 5. Expansion -- Notes for Chapter Five -- Appendix to Chapter Five -- Six The Utility of the Classification -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Data -- 2. Definitions -- 3. An Abbreviated Analysis of a Clause -- 4. Control -- 4.3 Final Comments on Control -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes for Chapter Six -- Addenda to Chapter Six -- Seven Agreement, Anti-Agreement, and Order -- 0. Summary -- 1. Architectural Conclusions -- 2. Analytical Conclusions -- 3. Conclusion -- Notes for Chapter Seven -- References.
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 28
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Linguistics ; Phenomenology ; Language and languages—Style. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Tractatus Brevis -- The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture: The Life-Significance of Literature -- I The Dialectic of the Passions and the Elemental Passions in Literature — surveying the foundations — -- Descartes and Hobbes on the Passions -- Beware of the Beasts! Spinoza and the Elemental Passions in German Literature: Lessing, Goethe, Stifter -- Speakable and Unspeakable Passions in English Neoclassical and Romantic Poetry -- Desire: An Elemental Passion in Hegel’s Phenomenology -- German Expressionism and the Human Passions -- II The Sublime, an Essential Factor in the Elemental Passions of the Soul -- Longinus’ On the Sublime and the Role of the Creative Imagination -- The Passion of Finitude and Poetic Creation: On Pedro Salinas’s El Contemplado -- Juilo Cortázar: La pasión de ser y del ser -- Nostalgia and the Child Topoi: Metaphors of Disruption and Transcendence in the Work of Joseph Brodsky, Marc Chagall and Andrei Tarkovsky -- Apollonian Eros and the Fruits of Failure in the Poetic Pursuit of Being: Notes on the Rape of Daphne -- III Elemental Passions of the Soul: Love and Death -- A Tragic Phenomenon: Aspects of Love and Hate in Racine’s Theater -- “The Gulf of the Soul”: Melville’s Pierre and the Representation of Aesthetic Failure -- Love and Will in The Awakening -- The Passionate Self-Destruction of Hester Prynne -- Death, and the Elemental Passion of the Soul: An Ancient Philosophical Thesis, with Poetic Counterpoint -- Erotic Modes of Discourse: The Union of Mythos and Dialectic in Plato’s Phaedrus -- The Plight of the Couple in Beckett’s All Strange A way -- Narration and the Face of Anxiety in Henry James’ “The Beast in the Jungle” -- IV The Passional Expansion of the Soul: Mind, Body, Space, Being -- Czeslaw Milosz’s Passion for “Place”: Soul’s Knowing under “The Wormwood Star” -- L’espace poétique — pour une analogie phénomenologique sans entrave (Bachelard et Calinescu) -- The Plight of the Siamese Twin: Mind, Body, and Value in John Barth’s “Petition” -- Hecuba’s Grief, Polydorus’ Corpse, and the Transference of Perspective -- Elemental Substances and Their Drama in the Mayan Imagination as Perceived in Popol Vuh -- Fusion of Feeling and Nature in Wordsworthian and Classical Chinese Poetry -- V The Inward Recesses of the Passional Soul -- The Passion of Apprehension: The Soul’s Activity as the Agent Intellect in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Nietzsche and Creative Passion in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Obsessive Passion: A Structuring Motif in Flaubert’s Work -- Boundaries: The Primal Force and Human Face of Evil -- Poe’s “Loss of Breath” and the Problem of Writing -- Milan Kundera’s Polyphonic Compositions: Appropriations or Disseminations? -- The Semiotics of Self-Revelation in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones -- From Passion to Self-Reflexivity: A Holistic Approach to Consciousness and Literature -- The Passions Observed: The Visionary Poetics of Ezra Pound -- Is Life in Literature a Fiction? -- Closure -- Finitude, Infinitude and the Imago Dei in Catherine of Siena and Descartes -- Index of Names.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: I Possible Worlds: Introduction -- 1 Possible Worlds -- 2 Semantic Competence -- 3 Semantics and Logic -- 4 Physical Theories and Possible Worlds -- II Situations and Attitudes: Introduction -- 5 The World Situation (It’s a small world after all) -- 6 Quotational Theories of Propositional Attitudes -- 7 More about Inscriptionalism -- III Quantification and Reference: Introduction -- 8 Identity and Intensional Objects -- 9 The Greek-Turkish Imbroglio (Do we need game-theoretical semantics?) -- 10 Some Recent Theories of Anaphora.
    Abstract: Over a longer period than I sometimes care to contemplate I have worked on possible-worlds semantics. The earliest work was in modal logic, to which I keep returning, but a sabbatical in 1970 took me to UCLA, there to discover the work of Richard Montague in applying possible-worlds semantics to natural lan­ guage. My own version of this appeared in Cresswell (1973) and was followed up in a number of articles, most of which were collected in Cresswell (1985b). A central problem for possible­ worlds semantics is how to accommodate propositional attitudes. This problem was addressed in Cresswell (1985a), and the three books mentioned so far represent a reasonably complete picture of my positive views on formal semantics. I have regarded the presentation of a positive view as more important than the criticism of alternatives, although the works referred to do contain many passages in which I have tried to defend my own views against those of others. But such criticism is important in that a crucial element in establishing the content of a theory is that we be able to evaluate it in relation to its com­ petitors. It is for that reason that I have collected in this volume a number of articles in which I attempt to defend the positive semantical picture I favour against objections and competing theories.
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 7
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    Abstract: The Internal Structure of the Syllable -- Reading Complex Words -- A Synthesis of Some Recent Work in Sentence Production -- The Isolability of Syntactic Processing -- Neuropsychological Evidence for Linguistic Modularity -- Parsing Complexity and a Theory of Parsing -- Comprehending Sentences with Long-Distance Dependencies -- Thematic Structures and Sentence Comprehension -- Integrating Information in Text Comprehension: The Interpretation of Anaphoric Noun Phrases -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The papers in this volume are intended to exemplify the state of experimental psycho linguistics in the middle to later 1980s. Our over­ riding impression is that the field has come a long way since the earlier work of the 1950s and 1960s, and that the field has emerged with a renewed strength from a difficult period in the 1970s. Not only are the theoretical issues more sharply defined and integrated with existing issues from other domains ("modularity" being one such example), but the experimental techniques employed are much more sophisticated, thanks to the work of numerous psychologists not necessarily interested in psycholinguistics, and thanks to improving technologies unavailable a few years ago (for instance, eye-trackers). We selected papers that provide a coherent, overall picture of existing techniques and issues. The volume is organized much as one might organize an introductory linguistics course - beginning with sound and working "up" to mean­ ing. Indeed, the first paper, Rebecca Treiman's, begins with considera­ tion of syllable structure, a phonological consideration, and the last, Alan Garnham's, exemplifies some work on the interpretation of pro­ nouns, a semantic matter. In between are found works concentrating on morphemes, lexical structures, and syntax. The cross-section represented in this volume is by necessity incom­ plete, since we focus only on experimental work directed at under­ standing how adults comprehend and produce language. We do not include any works on language acquisition, first or second.
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    Abstract: A Theoretical and Historical Context for Second Language Acquisition -- Linguistic Theory: Generative Grammar -- The Ontogenesis of the Field of Second Language Learning Research -- B Parameters -- Parameterized Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition: A Study of the Acquisition of Verb Placement and Inflection by Children and Adults -- Nature of Development in L2 Acquisition and Implications for Theories of Language Acquisition in General -- Linguistic Theory. Neurolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition -- Second Language Acquisition: A Biolinguistic Perspective -- Neurolinguistics and Parameter Setting -- C Markedness in Second Language Acquisition -- The Acquisition of Infinitive and Gerund Complements by Second Language Learners -- Island Effects in Second Language Acquisition -- On the Role of Linguistic Theory in Explanations of Second Language Developmental Grammars -- L2 Learnability: Delimiting the Domain of Core Grammar as Distinct from the Marked Periphery -- Kinds of Markedness -- D Additional Evidence for Universal Grammar -- The Categorial Status of Modals and L2 Acquisition -- UG-Generated Knowledge in Adult Second Language Acquisition -- Prosodic Phonology and the Acquisition of a Second Language -- Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition: Promises and Problems in Critically Relating Theory and Empirical Studies -- E Complementary Perspectives -- Pidginization as Language Acquisition -- All Paths Lead to the Mental Lexicon -- Intermorphology and Morphological Theory: A Plea for a Concession -- F Universal Grammar from a Traditional Perspective -- Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory: The Role of Language Transfer -- Grammatical Theory and L2 Acquisition: A Brief Overview -- Typological and Parametric Views of Universals in Second Language Acquisition -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Suzanne Flynn and Wayne O'Neil Massachusetts Institute of Technology I. INTRODUCTION The theory of Universal Grammar (UG) as explicated e. g. in Chomsky, 1986, has led to explosive developments in the study of natural language as well as to significant advances in the study of first language (L I) acquisition. Most recently. the theory of UG has led to important theore­ tical and empirical advances in the field of adult second language (L2) acquisition as well. The principle impetus for this development can be traced to the work in linguistics which shifted the study "from behavior or the products of behavior to states of the mind/brain that enter into behavior" (Chomksy. 1986:3). Grammars within this framework are conceived of as theoretical accounts of "the state of the mind/brain of the person who knows a particular language" (Chomsky. 1986:3). Research within fields of language acquisition seeks to isolate and specify the properties of the underlying competence necessary for language learning. Full development of a theory of UG demands study and understanding of the nature of both the formal properties of language and of the language acquisition process itself. However. while there is a tradition of debate and dialogue established between theoretical linguistics and Ll acquisition research. relatively few connections have been made between linguistic theory and L2 acquisition research.
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    Abstract: I. Introduction -- 1. Prom linguistic form to situation schemata -- 2. Interpreting situation schemata -- 3. The logical point of view -- II. From Linguistic Form to Situation Schemata -- 1. Levels of linguistic form determining meaning -- 2. Motivation for the use of constraints -- 3. The modularization of the mapping from form to meaning -- 4. Situation schemata -- 5. The algorithm from linguistic form to situation schemata -- III. Interpreting Situation Schemata -- 1. The art of interpretation -- 2. The inductive definition of the meaning relation -- 3. A remark on the general format of situation schemata -- 4. Generalizing generalized quantifiers -- IV. A Logical Perspective -- 1. The mechanics of interpretation -- 2. A hierarchy of formal languages -- 3. Mathematical study of some formal languages -- 4. On the model theoretic interpretation of situation schemata -- V. Conclusions -- Appendices -- A. Prepositional Phrases in Situation Schemata -- by Erik Colban -- B. A Lyndon type interpretation theorem for many-sorted first-order logic -- C. Proof of the relative saturation lemma -- References.
    Abstract: This monograph grew out of research at Xerox PARC and the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) during the first year of CSLI's existence. The Center was created as a meeting place for people from many different research traditions and there was much interest in seeing how the various approaches could be joined in a common effort to understand the complexity of language and information. CSLI was thus an ideal environment for our group and our enterprise. Our original goal was to see how a well-developed linguistic the­ ory, such as lexical-functional grammar, could be joined with the ideas emerging from research in situation semantics in a manner which would measure up to the technical standards set by Montague grammar. The outcome was our notion of situation schemata and the extension of constraint-based grammar formalisms to deal with semantic as well as syntactic information. As our work progressed we widened our approach. We decided to also include a detailed study of the logic of situation theory, and to investigate how this logical theory is related to the relational theory of meaning developed in situation semantics.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Russian language ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Balto-Slavic linguistic unity.
    Abstract: 1. Overview of Case in Russian -- 1. Case in Russian -- 2. The Representation of Case -- 3. Assignment of Case -- 4. The Case of Adjectives -- 5. Agreement -- 6. Second Predicate Modifiers -- 2. Object Case Marking and The Genitive of Negation -- 1. Lexically Governed Alternation -- 2. Genitive of Negation -- 3. Distinct Mechanisms for Genitive Marking -- 4. Other Types of Negation -- 5. Scope, Interpretation, and Distribution of [+Q] -- 6. Accusative/Genitive Alternation and Polarity Sensitivity -- 7. The Feature [Q] and Semantics -- 8. Summary -- 3. Apparent Genitive Subjects Within the Scope of Negation -- 1. Demotion -- 2. Do Genitive Subjects Exist? -- 3. Formalization of the Rule of Demotion -- 4. Numeral Phrases and Quantifier Phrases -- 1. Numeral Phrases -- 2. Quantifier Phrases -- 3. Disagreement about Non-agreeing Phrases -- 4. One Million -- 5. Summary -- 5. Subject Case Marking and Case Agreement of Modifiers -- 1. Data -- 2. Adjuncts and Complements -- 3. Agreement and Control Relations -- 4. Comparison with Alternative Accounts -- 5. Conclusions -- 6. Consequences for a Theory of Case -- 1. Long-Distance Phenomena and Control Relations -- 2. Toward a Theory of Russian Case -- 3. LFG and the Theory of Case -- 4. Conclusions -- Appendix I: Abbreviations and Transliteration -- 1. List of Abbreviations for Sentence Glosses -- 2. Transliteration -- Appendix II: Declension Paradigms -- Appendix III: Lexical Functional Grammar -- 1. Organization -- 2. Phrase Structure Rules -- 3. Lexical Entries -- 4. Lexical Redundancy Rules -- 5. Functional Well-Formedness -- 6. Possible Rules -- 7. Theory of Control and Complementation -- 7.1. Complements vs. Adjuncts -- 7.2. Open Complements -- 7.3. Open Adjuncts -- 7.4. Closed Complements -- 7.5. Closed Adjuncts -- 7.6. The Constituency of Complements -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: Seperating Linguistic Analyses from Linguistic Theories -- Applicability of Indexed Grammars to Natural Languages -- A Natural Language Toolkit: Reconciling Theory with Practice -- An Extension of LR-Parsing for Lexical Functional Grammar -- An Efficiency-Oriented LFG Parser -- Parsing with a GB-Grammar -- Combining Categorial Grammar and Unification -- A feature-Based Categorial Morpho-Syntax for Japanese -- The Treatment of the French adjectif détaché in Lexical Functional Grammar -- Some Problems of Coordination in German -- German Word Order and Universal Grammar -- Nonlocal-Dependencies and Infinitival Constructions in German -- GPSG and German Word Order -- Nested Cooper Storage: The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary Noun Phrases -- Compositional Semantics for LFG.
    Abstract: presupposition fails, we now give a short introduction into Unification Grammar. Since all implementations discussed in this volume use PROLOG (with the exception of BlockjHaugeneder), we felt that it would also be useful to explain the difference between unification in PROLOG and in UG. After the introduction to UG we briefly summarize the main arguments for using linguistic theories in natural language processing. We conclude with a short summary of the contributions to this volume. UNIFICATION GRAMMAR 3 Feature Structures or Complex Categories. Unification Grammar was developed by Martin Kay (Kay 1979). Martin Kay wanted to give a precise defmition (and implementation) of the notion of 'feature'. Linguists use features at nearly all levels of linguistic description. In phonetics, for instance, the phoneme b is usually described with the features 'bilabial', 'voiced' and 'nasal'. In the case of b the first two features get the value +, the third (nasal) gets the value -. Feature­ value pairs in phonology are normally represented as a matrix. bilabial: + voiced: + I nasal: - [Feature matrix for b.] In syntax features are used, for example, to distinguish different noun classes. The Latin noun 'murus' would be characterized by the following feature-value pairs: gender: masculin, number: singular, case: nominative, pred: murus. Besides a matrix representation one frequently fmds a graph representation for feature value pairs. The edges of the graph are labelled by features. The leaves denote the value of a feature.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Celtic languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 1.1. The Descriptive and Theoretical Goals -- 1.2. An Overview of Government Binding Theory -- 1.3. An Overview of the Major Results of This Study -- 2 Celtic Agreement, the Avoid Pronoun Principle, and Binding Theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Breton Agreement Markers Determined by the Avoid Pronoun Principle -- 2.3. Generalizing the Analysis of Breton Agreement to Welsh -- 2.4. Evidence from the Binding Theory: Breton and Welsh Have a Null AGR -- 2.5. AGR as a SUBJECT for the Binding Theory -- 3 Raising and Passivization in Breton: An Argument for Anaphoric Traces -- 3.1. The Theoretical Status of Anaphoric Traces -- 3.2. The Breton Raising to Subject Construction -- 3.3. Raising Structures Parallel Passive Structures -- 3.4. Breton Raising and Pseudopassive: Further Implications -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 4 PRO-INFL and Reduced Structures -- 4.1. Reduced Structures Have Missing INFLs -- 4.2. Some INFLs Missing in Welsh and English Are PRO-INFL -- 4.3. Corroborating Evidence for the PRO-INFL Analysis -- 4.4. Contraction and Reduced Structures -- 4.5. A Competing Analysis -- 4.6. Breton is Consistent with the PRO-INFL Analysis -- 5 Government and the Connection Between Relative Pronouns, Complementizers and Subjacency -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Relative Pronouns in English -- 5.3. Relative Pronouns Are Pronominal Anaphors -- 5.4. Welsh and Breton Lack Relative Pronouns -- 5.5. Competing Analyses and Other Arguments -- 5.6. Conclusion -- 6 The Interaction of Government Theory with Synthetic Agreement -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The ECP Gives a Unified Treatment of Complementizers and Agreement in Welsh Movement Structures -- 6.3. Two Asymmetries in Breton and Welsh Extraction -- 6.4. Welsh and Breton Extraction from Negatives -- 6.5. Competing Analyses and Arguments -- 6.6. Subject-Object Asymmetries at LF and the ECP -- 6.7. Conclusion -- References -- Index of Languages -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: This book is based in large part on fieldwork that I conducted in Brittany and Wales in 1983 and 1985. I am thankful for a Fulbright Award for Research in Western Europe and a Faculty Development Award from the University of North Carolina that funded that fieldwork. lowe a less tangible, but no less real, debt to Steve Anderson, G. M. Awbery, Steve Harlow and Jim McCloskey whose work initially sparked my interest, and led me to undertake this project. I want to thank Joe Emonds and Alec Marantz who read portions of Chapter 3 and 5. I am particularly grateful though to Kathleen Flanagan, Frank Heny and two anonymous referees who read a dyslexic and schizophrenic manuscript, providing me with criticisms that improved this final version considerably. The Welsh nationalist community in Aberstwyth and its Breton coun­ terpart in Quimper helped make the time I spent in Wales and Brittany productive. I am indebted to Thomas Davies, Partick Favreau, Lukian Kergoat, Sue Rhys, John Williams and Beatrice among others for sharing their knowledge of their languages with me. Catrin Davies and Martial Menard were especially patient and helpful. Without their assistance this work would have been infinitely poorer. I am hopeful that this book will help stimulate more interest in the Celtic languages and culture, and assist, even in a small way, those in Wales and Brittany who struggle to keep their language and culture strong.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Germanic languages ; Romance languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: 1 The Principles-and-Parameters Model and the Verb Phrase -- 1.1. From the Generative Tradition to Principles-and-Parameters -- 1.2. V* Constructions -- 1.3. $$ \bar{X} $$-Theory -- 1.4. Predication -- 1.5. Subcategorization and Theta-Theory -- Notes -- 2 Auxiliary Verbs in $$ \bar{X} $$-Theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Arguments for VP with Auxiliaries as Specifiers -- 2.3. Auxiliaries as Heads of Full Phrases -- 2.4. Specifiers and Adjuncts of Layered VP -- 2.5. Clausal-Type Restrictions on Occurrences of Aspectuals -- 2.6. Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Licensing of VP -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Predication and the Distribution of VP -- 3.3. Theta-marking of VP by INFL -- 3.4. Subcategorization Licensing and the Argumenthood of VP -- 3.5. Auxiliaries and Head-Head Agreement -- 3.6. The Verbal Case Hypothesis -- Appendix: Syntactic Aspect and the Distribution of VP and AP -- Notes -- 4 Proper Government of VP -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Tense-Government -- 4.3. INFL and Tense-Identification -- 4.4. Antecedentless Null VP (VP-Deletion) -- 4.5. Null VP and Auxiliary Clitics (Contraction) -- 4.6. Clitics and Proper Government -- 4.7. VP-Preposing -- Notes -- 5 Structure of VP in Spanish -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Spanish Aspectual and Copular Verbs -- 5.3. The Verbal Complex Hypothesis -- 5.4. Arguments for Standard Phrasal Structure for Auxiliaries -- 5.5. Summary and Discussion -- Notes -- 6 V0 Chains and Government of VP in Spanish -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Issues -- 6.3. Movement of Non-defective (Main) Verbs -- 6.4. V0 Movement of Haber + Participle -- 6.5. Movement of Estar and Ser -- 6.6. Temporal Role Assignment and Agreement in Declaratives -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This study is concerned with the structure of verb phrases in English and Spanish, and with syntactic processes involving VP and Vo. A primary focus of attention is auxiliary verbs. It is argued that the structure dominating these verbs is essentially the same in English and Spanish, as is the structure dominating auxiliaries and 'main' verbs in each language. It must be concluded that the occurrence of distinct syntactic processes affecting auxiliaries and other VP constituents in the two languages does not follow from parametrization of phrase structure. It is argued that similarities between the two languages with respect to the composition of so-called "V*" constructions derive from the fact that VP is licensed under both clauses of the Principle of Full Interpretation, i. e. , predication and sub categorization. Distinct syntactic processes in English and Spanish are argued to follow from the fact that there are inflectional features related to each of these licensing conditions (including specification for [ ± PAST) and nominal person/number features) which affect government relations in distinct ways, resulting in parametrization of S-structure representa­ tions. xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my appreCiatIOn to the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Washington for support for preparation of the final manuscript, and to the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Virginia for a leave during which much of this research was accomplished.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Logic ; Computational linguistics ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: Type-Shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives -- On the Semantic Content of the Notion of ‘Thematic Role’ -- Structured Meanings, Thematic Roles and Control -- On the Semantic Composition of English Generic Sentences -- Generically Speaking, or, Using Discourse Representation Theory to Interpret Generics -- Realism and Definiteness -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amherst on March 13-16 1986. The conference brought together logicians, philosophers, com­ puter scientists and linguists who had been working on these issues (of ten in isolation from one another). Our intent was to boost debate and exchange of ideas on these fundamental issues at a time of rapid change in semantics and cognitive science. The papers published in this work have evolved substantially since their original presentation at the conference. Given their scope, we thought it convenient to divide the work into two volumes. The first deals primarily with logical and philosophical foundations, the second with more empirical semantic issues. While there is a common set of issues tying the two volumes together, they are both self-contained and can be read independently of one another. Two of the papers in the present collection (van Benthem in volume 1 and Chierchia in volume II) were not actually read at the conference. They are nevertheless included here for their direct relevance to the topics of the volumes. Regrettably, some of the papers that were presented (Feferman, Klein, and Plotkin) could not be included in the present work due to timing problems. We nevertheless thank the authors for their contribu­ tion in terms of ideas and participation in the debate.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 32
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Philosophy. ; Historical linguistics.
    Abstract: On Boethius’s Notion of Being: A Chapter of Boethian Semantics -- Logic in the Early Twelfth Century -- The Distinction Actus Exercitus/Actus Significatus in Medieval Semantics -- Denomination in Peter of Auvergne -- Concrete Accidental Terms: Late Thirteenth-Century Debates About Problems Relating to Such Terms as ‘Album’ -- Concrete Accidental Terms and the Fallacy of Figure of Speech -- The Logic of the Categorical: The Medieval Theory of Descent and Ascent -- Tu Scis Hoc Esse Omne Quod Est Hoc: Richard Kilvington and the Logic of Knowledge -- Logic and Trinitarian Theology: De Modo Predicandi ac Sylogizandi in Divinis -- A Seventeenth-Century Physician on God and Atoms: Sebastian Basso -- Index of Persons.
    Abstract: The studies that make up this book were written and brought together to honor the memory of Jan Pinborg. His unexpected death in 1982 at the age of forty-five shocked and saddened students of medieval philosophy everywhere and left them with a keen sense of disappoint­ ment. In his fifteen-year career Jan Pinborg had done so much for our field with his more than ninety books, editions, articles, and reviews and had done it all so well that we recognized him as a leader and counted on many more years of his scholarship, his help, and his friendship. To be missed so sorely by his international colleagues in an academic field is a mark of Jan's achievement, but only of one aspect of it, for historians of philosophy are not the only scholars who have reacted in this way to Jan's death. In his decade and a half of intense productivity he also acquired the same sort of special status among historians of linguistics, whose volume of essays in his memory is being G. L. Bursill-Hall almost simultane­ published under the editorship of ously with this one. Sten Ebbesen, Jan's student, colleague, and successor as Director of the Institute of Medieval Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Copenhagen, has earned the gratitude of all of us by memorializing Jan 1 in various biographical sketches, one of which is accompanied by a 2 complete bibliography of his publications.
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    Keywords: Slavic languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Balto-Slavic linguistic unity.
    Abstract: 0. Introduction -- 1 Previous Analyses of Hungarian Phrase Structure -- 1.1. The ‘Free Word Order’, or Fully Non-configurational Approach -- 1.2. The ‘NP VP’, or Fully Configurational Approach -- 1.3. The Partially Non-configurational Approach -- 2 Hungarian Phrase Structure -- 2.1. The Invariant Positions of the Hungarian Sentence -- 2.2. Base Rules -- 2.3. Movement into F -- 2.4. Movement into T -- 2.5. Quantifier-Raising -- 2.6. Summary, Implications for Universal Grammar -- 3 Long Wh-movement, or the Traditional Problem of Sentence Intertwining -- 3.1. Long Wh-movement as a Test for Structural Configuration -- 3.2. Sentence Intertwining in Hungarian -- 3.3. Subject-Object Symmetry in Hungarian Long Operator Movement -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4 Questions of Binding and Coreference -- 4.1. Binding in Hungarian -- 4.2. The Coreference of Pronouns -- 4.3. Weak Crossover -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 5 Infinitival Constructions -- 5.1. Infinitives with an AGR Marker -- 5.2. Subject Control Constructions -- 5.3. The Problem of Governed PRO -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index of Names -- General Index.
    Abstract: The purpose of this book is to argue for the claim that Hungarian sentence structure consists of a non-configurational propositional component, preceded by configurationally determined operator positions. In the course of this, various descriptive issues of Hungarian syntax will be analyzed, and various theoretical questions concerning the existence and nature of non­ configurational languages will be addressed. The descriptive problems to be examined in Chapters 2 and 3 center around the word order of Hungarian sentences. Chapter 2 identifies an invariant structure in the apparently freely permutable Hungarian sentence, pointing out systematic correspondences between the structural position, interpre­ tation, and stressing and intonation of the different constituents. Chapter 3 analyzes the word order phenomenon traditionally called 'sentence inter- I twining' of complex sentences, and shows that the term, in fact, covers two different constructions (a structure resulting from operator movement, and a base generated pattern) with differences in constituent order, operator scope and V-object agreement. Chapter 4 deals interpretation, case assignment, with the coreference possibilities of reflexives, reciprocals, personal pro­ nouns, and lexical NPs. Finally, Chapter 5 assigns structures to the two major sentence types containing an infinitive. It analyzes infinitives with an AGR marker and a lexical subject, focusing on the problem of case assignment to the subject, as well as subject control constructions, accounting for their often paradoxical, simultaneously mono- and biclausal behaviour in respect to word order, operator scope, and V-object agreement.
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    Keywords: Indic philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Indians—Languages. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: 1: Grammatical Notes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basics -- 3. Major Lexical Classes -- 4. Minor Lexical Classes -- 5. Flagging -- 6. Word Order -- 7. Construction Survey -- 2: Theoretical Sketch -- 1. Arcs -- 2. Sponsor and Erase -- 3. Ancestral Relations -- 4. Pair Networks -- 5. Resolution of Overlapping Arcs -- 6. Coordinate Determination -- 7. Rules and Laws -- 8. Word Order -- 9. APG Versions of RG Laws -- 3: Inflection and Agreement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Moods and Aspects -- 3. Cross-referencing Person -- 4. Cross-referencing Number -- 5. The Optionality of Number Agreement -- 6. Agreement and Covert Arguments -- 7. APG Account of Agreement -- 4: Passive Clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntax of Passive Clauses -- 3. Tzotzil Passive Rules (APG) -- 5: Reflexive Clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reflexive Clauses -- 3. Reciprocal Coreference -- 4. Tzotzil Rules (APG) -- 6: Unaccusative Clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reflexive Unaccusative Clauses -- 3. Plain Unaccusative Clauses -- 4. Verb Classification -- 5. Tzotzil Rules (APG) -- 7: Ditransitive Clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ditransitive Clauses -- 3. 3-to-2 Advancement -- 4. Non-Existence of Final Indirect Objects -- 5. Restrictions on Advancement -- 6. Ditransitive Perfect Passives -- 7. Tzotzil Rules (APG) -- 8. Conclusion -- 8: Possessor Ascension -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Possessor Ascension -- 3. Coreference Condition 1 -- 4. Restriction on Ascension Host -- 5. Tzotzil Possessor Ascension Rule -- 6. The Unique 3 Arc Constraint -- 7. Optional Cases of Possessor Ascension -- 8. Coreference Condition 2 -- 9. Possessor Ascension in Discourse -- 10. APG Laws and Tzotzil Rules -- 11. Conclusion -- 9: Topic, Focus, and Copy Possessor Ascension -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distinguishing Topic and Focus -- 3. Surface Constituency in Possessor Ascension Structures -- 4. Topic and Focus -- 5. Copy and Coreferential Pronouns -- 6. APG Laws and Tzotzil Rules -- 10: Surrogate Agreement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Possessor Ascension -- 3. Conjunct Union -- 4. Summary -- 5. APG Laws and Tzotzil Rules -- 6. Conclusion -- 11: Clause Unions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Causative Clause Union -- 3. Abilitative Clause Union -- 4. Summary -- 5. APG Laws and Tzotzil Rules -- 12: Quantification and Initial Absolutives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Quantifiers -- 3. Prepredicate Quantifiers without Classifier -- 4. Prepredicate Quantifiers with Classifier -- 5. Postpredicate Quantifiers -- 6. Grammatical Relations versus Linear Order -- 7. Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Phonological Rules -- 1. Deletion of Stem-initial Glottal Stop -- 2. Deletion of Prevocalic A3 Prefix -- 3. Neutral Aspect Marker -- 4. Spirant Assimilation -- 5. Contraction -- 6. Geminate Reduction -- 7. Vowel Deletion -- References.
    Abstract: xv NOTES ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY AND CITATIONS xxi LIST OF ABBREVIA TIONS XXIIl CHAPTER 1: GRAMMATICAL NOTES 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Basics 1 3. Major Lexical Classes 2 3. 1. V 3 3. 2. N 3 3. 3. A 5 3. 3. 1. Quantifiers 6 3. 3. 2. Existentials and Locatives 6 4. Minor Lexical Classes 7 4. 1. Clitics 7 4. 1. 1. Clause-proclitic 7 4. 1. 2. S-enclitic 8 4. 1. 3. V-enclitic 8 4. 1. 4. Clause-second 9 4. 2. Directionals 9 4. 3. Particles 11 5. Flagging 11 6. Word Order 12 7. Construction Survey 12 7. 1. Negation 12 13 7. 2. Questions 7. 3. Complement Clauses 14 16 7. 4. Motion cum Purpose 17 7. 5. Topics 7. 6. Prepredicate Position 18 19 Notes CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL SKETCH 20 20 1. Arcs vii Vlll T ABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 1. Sets of Grammatical Relations 22 1. 2. Stratum 24 Ergative and Absolutive 1. 3. 25 1. 4. 25 Formal Connections between Arcs 2. Sponsor and Erase 26 2. 1. Successors 26 2. 2. Replacers 28 2. 3. Self-Sponsor and Self-Erase 30 3. Ancestral Relations 31 4. Pair Networks 31 Resolution of Overlapping Arcs 32 5. 6. Coordinate Determination 33 7. Rules and Laws 35 8. Word Order 36 9. APG Versions of RG Laws 36 9. 1. Stratal Uniqueness Law 36 9. 2. Chomeur Law and Motivated Chomage Law 36 Relational Succession Law and Host Limitation Law 9. 3.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Language and languages—Style.
    Abstract: Text -- I. Epistle Dedicatory -- II. Preface -- III. Book I -- IV. Book II -- V. Book III -- VI. Contents -- Notes -- Commentary Notes -- Textual Notes.
    Abstract: The significance of Henry More's vitalist philosophy in the history of ideas has been realized relatively recently, as the bibliography will reveal. The general neglect of the Cambridge Platonist movement may be attributed to the common prejudice that its chief exponents, especially More, were obscure mystics who were neither coherent in their philosophical system nor attractive in their prose style. I hope that this modern edition of More's principal treatise will help to correct this unjust im­ pression and reveal the keenness and originality of More's intellect, which sought to demonstrate the relevance of classical philosophy in an age of empirical science. The wealth of learning -- ranging as it does from Greek antiquity to 17th­ century science and philosophy -- that informs More' s intellectual system of the universe should, in itself, be a recom­ mendation to students of the history of ideas. Though, for those in search of literary satisfaction, too, there is not wanting, in More's style, the humour, and grace, of a man whose erudition did not divorce him from a sympathetic understanding of human contradictions. As for More's elaborate speculations concerning the spirit world in the final book of this treatise, I think that we would indeed be justified in regarding their combination of classical mythology amd scientific naturalism as the literary and philosophical counterpart of the great celestial frescoes of the Baroque masters.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Phonology ; Oriental languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Phonology.
    Abstract: I: Introduction -- 1.1. The Issues -- 1.2. The Historical Perspective -- 1.3. The Spiral of Progress -- II: An Outline of the Theory: English Phonology -- 2.1. Lexical and Postlexical Rule Applications -- 2.2. Lexical Morphology -- 2.3. The Use of Morphological Information in Phonology -- 2.4. How Many Strata in English? -- 2.5. Rules, Domains, and Stratum Ordering -- 2.6. The Mental Representation of Lexical Entries -- III: Malayalam Phonology: Segmentals -- 3.1. The Lexical Alphabet -- 3.2. The Underlying Alphabet -- 3.3. Syllable Structure in Malayalam -- 3.4. Lexical Strata in Malayalam -- 3.5. Summary -- IV: Malayalam Phonology: Suprasegmentals -- 4.1. The Loop in Malayalam Morphology -- 4.2. Stress and Word Melody -- 4.3. The Domain of Stress and Word Melody -- 4.4. Schwa Insertion and Word Melody -- 4.5. An Ordering Paradox -- 4.6. The Effect of the Loop on Stress and Word Melody -- V: Accessing Morphological Information -- 5.1. Types of Nonphonological Information in Phonology -- 5.2. Boundaries -- 5.3. Domains as Node Labels on Trees -- 5.4. Hierarchical Structure in Morphology Notes -- VI: The Postlexical Module -- 6.1. Syntactic and Postsyntactic Modules -- 6.2. Speech as Implementation of Phonetic Representation -- 6.3. The Nature of Phonetic Representations -- 6.4. Language-Specific Implementational Phenomena -- 6.5. Types of Subsegmental Phenomena -- 6.6. Underlying and Lexical Alphabets -- 6.7. Phonological Structure and Phonetic Implementation -- 6.8. Phonetic Implementation and Classical Phonemics -- VII: Lexical Phonology and Psychological Reality -- 7.1. The Nature of Evidence in Phonology -- 7.2. Speaker Judgments -- 7.3. Phonemic Orthography -- 7.4. Conventions of Sound Patterning in Versification -- Conclusion -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 1. Towards a Theory of Mixed Categories -- 2. Overview of the Structure of Quechua -- 2: Syntactic Categories and Their Projections -- 1. Nominalized Clauses versus Main Clauses -- 2. Nominalizations and the Syntactic Categories of Quechua -- 3. Transcategorial Constructions -- 4. Summary -- 3: Morphology and Syntax -- 1. Quechua Nominalizations and Their Morphology -- 2. Affixes versus Clitics -- 3. The Lexical Entry and Its Constitution -- 4. The Lexicon and Syntax -- 5. Summary -- 4: Case -- 1. Case as an X? Phenomenon -- 2. Types of Case Assignment -- 3. Structural Case Assignment -- 4. Case Marking in Prepositional Phrases, Adjectival Phrases and Noun Phrases -- 5. The Case Filter -- 6. Summary -- 5: Move Case -- 1. Extraction Facts in Quechua -- 2. Raising as Move CASE -- 3. Wh-movement as Move CASE -- 4. Move CASE and the Non-Configurational Properties of Quechua -- 5. Summary -- 6: Complementation Versus Relativization -- 1. The Structure of Relative Clauses -- 2. -q Relatives and Other -q Clauses -- 3. Non-Subject Relative Clauses -- 4. Free Relatives -- 5. Summary -- 7: Nominalized Clauses as Propositions -- 1. Clause Typology -- 2. Propositionality and AUX -- 3. Types of Tense in Quechua -- 4. Clauses without INFL: Restructuring Verbs -- 5. Predication and the Complements of Perception Verbs -- 6. Typology of Clauses Revisited -- 7. Summary -- 8: Module Interaction and Category Theory -- 8.1. Listing the Properties of Quechua -- 8.2. Relating these Properties to Each Other: Module Interaction -- General References -- Index of Names.
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    Abstract: The Theory of Parameters and Syntactic Development -- Comments on Hyams -- Parameters and Learnability in Binding Theory -- Comments on Wexler and Manzini -- Deductive Parameters and the Growth of Empty Categories -- The Maturation of Syntax -- Comments on Borer and Wexler -- Parameter Setting and the Development of Pronouns and Reflexives -- Comments on Solan -- The Pro-Drop Parameter in Second Language Acquisition -- A Note on Phinney -- List of Contributors.
    Abstract: In May 1985 the University of Massachusetts held the first conference on the parameter setting model of grammar and acquisition. The conference was conceived in the belief that there is a new possibility of tightly connecting grammatical studies and language acquisition studies, and that this new possibility has grown out of the new generation of ideas about the relation of Universal Grammar to the grammar of particular languages. The papers in this volume are all concerned in one way or another with the 'parametric' model of grammar, and with its role in explaining the acquisition of language. Before summarizing the accompanying papers, I would like to sketch the intellectual background of these new ideas. It has long been the acknowledged goal of grammatical theorists to explicate the relation between the experience of the child and the knowledge of the adult. Somehow, the child selects a unique grammar (by assumption) compatible with a random partially unreliable sample of some language. In the earliest work in generative grammar, starting with Chomsky's Aspects, and extending to such works as Jackendoffs Lexicalist Syntax (1977), the model of this account was the formal evaluation metric, accompanied by a general rule writing system. The model of acquisition was the following: the child composed a grammar by writing rules in the rule writing system, under the constraint that the rules must be compatible with the data, and that the grammar must be the one most highly valued by the evaluation metric.
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    Abstract: A Learn Ability Theory and Anaphora -- On the Nonconcrete Relation between Evidence and Acquired Language -- B Is the parser constrained? -- Parsing Efficiency, Binding, C-command and Learnability -- Some Evidence for and Against a “Proximity Strategy” in the Acquisition of Subject Control Sentences -- Evidence against a Minimal Distance Principal in First Language Acquisition of Anaphora -- C Do the Constraints Emerge under Variable Experience? -- Underlying Redundancy and Its Reduction in a Language Developed Without a Language Model: Constraints Imposed by Conventional Linguistic Input -- Coreference Relations in American Sign Language -- The Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora in American Sign Language by Deaf Children -- Principles of Pronoun Anaphora in the Acquisition of Oral Language by the Hearing-Impaired -- D Do Constraints Emerge in Acquisition of a Second Language? -- Second Language Acquisition of Pronoun Anaphora: Resetting the Parameter -- E Evidencing Grammatical Competence: Methodological Issues -- Children’s Interpretation of Pronouns and Null NPs: An Alternative View -- What Children Know: Methods for the Study of First Language Acquisition -- List of Contributors -- Table of Contents for Volume I -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Today, one fundamental set of issues confronts both the linguistic theory of 'Universal Grammar' and the psychological study of human cognition. These issues concern the question of to what degree and how the human mind is "programmed," presumably biologically, to acquire the complex knowiedge of human language. As discussed in Volume I, anaphora has been critical to this study because, while a critical property of language knowledge, it is largely underdetermined by available evidence. While most previous research projects have generally addressed these issues through either linguistic analyses or psychological analyses of language data, and have concerned themselves with either the role of innateness or the role of experience in language knowledge, this volume, with its predecessor, attempts to combine these approaches; in fact to develop a research paradigm for their joint study. While Volume I emphasized study of the content and nature of the initial state, i. e. , of the language faculty, this second volume emphasizes study of the way in which experience does or does not interact with this language faculty to determine language acquisition. We argue in the introduction that the issues addressed in Volume II are appreciable, if not necessary, com­ plements to those addressed in Volume I. This is not only because a more comprehensive model of language acquisition requires so, but because valid definition of the content of 'the initial state' may require so.
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    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 1.1 L2 Acquisition: The Problems and Traditional Answers -- 1.2 Universal Grammar -- 1.3 Basis for an Alternative Theory of L2 Acquisition -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- 2. Traditional Theories of L2 Acquisition -- 2.1 Theory of Contrastive Analysis (CA) -- 2.2 Theory of Creative Construction (CC) -- 2.3 Bases for an Explanatory Theory of L2 Acquisition -- 2.4 Preliminary Conclusions -- Notes to Chapter Two -- 3. Universal Grammar -- 3.1 Universal Grammar -- 3.2 Universal Grammar as a Theory of Grammar -- 3.3 Linguistic Focus of Book -- 3.4 Relevant Linguistic Concepts for Experimental Tests of Pronoun and Null Anaphors -- 3.5 Universal Grammar as a Theory of Language Acquisition -- 3.6 Overview: UG and L2 Acquisition -- 3.7 Summary -- Notes to Chapter Three -- 4. A Typological Comparison Of Japanese and Spanish -- 4.1 Word Order, Configurationality, and Head-Initial/Head-Final Parameter -- 4.2 Anaphora -- 4.3 Adjunct Adverbial Subordinate Clauses -- 4.4 Summary of Cross-Linguistic Facts -- Notes to Chapter Four -- 5. Rationale and Design -- 5.1 General Hypotheses to be Tested -- 5.2 Overview: Experimental Design -- 5.3 Experimental Design and Hypotheses -- 5.4 Basic Controls on Experimental Design -- Notes to Chapter Five -- 6 Methodology -- 6.1 Subjects (Ss) -- 6.2 General Procedures -- 6.3 Materials -- 6.4 ESL Proficiency Test: Standardized Levels -- 6.5 Specific Experimental Task Procedures -- 6.6 Procedures for Data Transcription -- 6.7 Procedures for Scoring of the Data -- 7. Results -- 7.1 Results for Experimental Controls -- 7.2 Amount Correct: Results for Production Tests -- 7.3 Error Analyses: Results for Production Tests 1 to 3 -- 7.4 Amount Correct: Results for Comprehension Test 4 -- 7.5 Coreference Judgements (CRJs) -- 7.6 General Summary and Conclusions -- Notes to Chapter Seven -- 8. Some Conclusions -- 8.1 General Summary -- 8.2 Similarities in L2 Acquisition for Spanish and Japanese Speakers -- 8.3 Dissimilarities in L2 Acquisition for Spanish and Japanese Speakers -- 8.4 Implications for an Alternative Theory of L2 Acquisition -- 8.5 Some Differences Between L1 and L2 Acquisition -- 8.6 Possible Alternative Explanations of the Data -- 8.7 Importance for a Theory of UG -- 8.8 Implications for Future Research -- Appendices -- Author Index.
    Abstract: Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to an important reorientation of research in related fields of linguistic inquiry as well as in linguistics itself. The developments I have in mind, viewed from the point of view of government-binding theory, have to do with the character­ ization of Universal Grammar (UG) as a set of subtheories, each with its set of central principles (perhaps just one principle central to each subtheory) and parameters (perhaps just one for each principle) according to which a principle can vary between an unmarked ('-') and a marked ('+') para­ metric value (Chomsky, 1985; 1986). For example, let us assume that there is an X-bar theory in explanation of those features of phrase structure irreducible to other subtheo­ ries of UG. Within X-bar theory variation among languages is then allowed only with respect to the position the head of a phrase occupies in rela t ion to its complemen ts such that the phrases of a language will be either right- or left-headed. Thus languages will vary between being right-headed in this respect (as in Japanese phrase structure) and being left-headed (as in English phrase structure). Everything else about the phrase structure of particular languages will be fixed within X-bar theory itself or else it will fallout from other subtheories of UG: Case theory; 0-theory, etc. (Chomsky, 1985:161-62; Chomsky, 1986:2-4; and references cited there). Hatters are the same in other modules of grammar.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: Noun Phrases, Generalized Quantifiers and Anaphora -- Towards a Computational Semantics -- Preliminaries to the Treatment of Generalized Quantifiers in Situation Semantics -- There-Sentences and Generalized Quantifiers -- Unreducible n-ary Quantifiers in Natural Language -- Generalized Quantifiers and Plurals -- Natural Language and Generalized Quantifier Theory -- Collective Readings of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases -- Noun Phrase Interpretation in Montague Grammar, File Change Semantics, and Situation Semantics -- Branching Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography for Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con­ sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainly carried out by mathematicians. Since then an increasing number of linguists and philosophers have become interested in exploring the relevance of general quantifiers for natural language as shown by the bibliography compiled for this volume. To a large extent, the new research has been inspired by Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper's path-breaking article "Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language" from 1981. A concrete sign of this development was the workshop on this topic at Lund University, May 9-11, 1985, which was organized by Robin Cooper, Elisabet Engdahl, and the present editor. All except two of the papers in this volume derive from that workshop. Jon Barwise's paper in the volume is different from the one he presented in connection with the workshop. Mats Rooth's contribution has been added because of its close relationship with the rest of the papers. The articles have been revised for publication here and the authors have commented on each other's contributions in order to integrate the collection. The organizers of the workshop gratefully acknowledge support from the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (through the Wallenberg Foundation), the Swedish Institute, and the Letterstedt Foundation.
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general ; Indo-Iranian philology ; Linguistics ; Oriental languages.
    Abstract: One: A Concise English Grammar -- 1: Grammar and Contrastive Grammar -- 2: The Units of Grammatical Description -- Two: The Structures of English and Dutch Compared -- 3: Nouns, Noun Phrases and Pronouns -- 4: Verbs and Verb Phrases -- 5: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases Adverbs and Adverb Phrases Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases -- 6: The Sentence -- Appendix I List of Irregular Verbs in English -- II Inventory of Spelling Rules -- Select Bibliography.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Indic philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Indians—Languages.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 1. Choctaw verb agreement -- 2. Other problems in Choctaw -- 3. Results of the study -- 2: Two Classes of Intransitive Predicates -- 1. Properties of Choctaw subjects -- 2. The two classes of intransitives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis -- 3. Final 1hood of unaccusative subjects -- 4. The role of the Unaccusative Hypothesis -- 5. Summary -- 3: Dative Beneficiaries and Dative Possessors -- 1. Dative beneficiaries -- 2. Dative possessors -- 3. Summary -- 4: The Double Accusative Construction -- 1. The structure of the subject -- 2. The Antipassive structure -- 3. The configuration of the initial 2 -- 4. Possessor Ascension and the Antipassive structure -- 5. Conclusions -- 5: Dative Subjects -- 1. Characterization of the dative subject -- 2. Characterizing the object -- 3. The failure of an alternative analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- 6: Dative Direct Objects -- 1. The dative direct object -- 2. Accusative subject/dative direct object clauses -- 3. Inversion and 2–3 Retreat -- 4. Demotions in Universal Grammar -- 7: A Proposal for Verb Agreement -- 1. An account of Choctaw verb agreement -- 2. Disjunctive application of agreement rules -- 3. Summary -- Appendix: Switch-reference and disjunctive rule application -- 8: The Interaction of Agreement and Case -- 1. Transparency of agreement and case -- 2. Agreement as a lexical property -- 3. A proposal for agreement and case -- 4. Conclusion -- References.
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    Abstract: A Theoretical Base -- Reflections on Anaphora -- Center and Periphery in the Grammar of Anaphora -- Fundamental Issues in the Theory of Binding -- B First Language Acquisition: Experimental Studies -- 1. Null (Bound) Anaphora -- How Children Acquire Bound Variables -- 2. Pronoun (Free) Anaphora -- The 3-D Study: Effects of Depth, Distance and Directionality on Children’s Acquisition of Anaphora -- 3. Distinguishing Bound and Free Anaphora -- A Comparison of Null and Pronoun Anaphora in First Language Acquisition -- 4. Control -- Syntactic and Lexical Constraints on the Acquisition of Control in Complement Sentences -- C Commentary -- Crossover Between Acquisition Research and Government and Binding Theory: Comments on the Paper by Tom Roeper -- Blocked Forwards Coreference: Theoretical Implications of the Acquisition Data -- List Of Contributors -- Table of Contents for Volume II -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This book is addressed to a central area' of current linguistics and psycholinguistics: anaphora. It is a collection of independent studies by individuals who are currently working, on probleJ,IlS in this area. The book includes two independent volumes. The major focus of these volumes is a psycholinguistic problem: the first language acquisition of anaphora. The volumes are intended to provide a basic reference source for the study of this one central, critical area of language competence. They combine results from the interdisciplinary study this area has attracted in recent years. Each of the studies collected here is intended to be readable indepen­ dently of the others. Thus a theoretical linguist or psycholinguist may each use this book only in part. Two basic assumptions underlie this collection of studies. (1) Signifi­ cant psycholinguistic study of the problem of first language acquisition requires a basis in linguistic theory. We look to linguistic theory (a) for the formulation of testable hypotheses which are coherent with a general theoretical model of language competence, and which, by empirical confirmation or disconfirmation, will have consequences which can be integra~ed in a general theory of language and of mind. This is because we pursue explanation ~f the problem of firs~ language acquisition, not merely description. (b) We also look to linguistic theory for precision in the description of language stimuli and language behavior in empirical studies. This is in order to promote replicability and interpretability of empirical results: .
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Phonology ; African Languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Phonology.
    Abstract: one: Introduction -- 1. Lexical Phonology -- 2. Tiered Phonology -- 3. Tone and Lexical Phonology -- Two: The Relevance of Downstep for a Phonetic Component -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some General Properties of Downstep -- 3. The Overall Model -- 4. Downstep in Tiv: Evidence for Floating L-tones -- 5. Downstep in Dschang: More Evidence for Floating Tones -- 6. Post-lexical vs. Phonetic Rules -- Notes -- Three: Morphological Encoding and the Association Conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Cycle -- 3. Association Conventions -- 4. Morphological Encoding — Alternative Approaches -- Four: Underspecification -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Default Rules -- 3. Yala Ikom Reduplication -- 4. Yoruba -- 5. Values for Default Rules -- 6. Constraints on Underspecification -- 7. Ordering of Default Rules -- 8. Referring to Free Skeletal Positions -- 9. Core Values vs. Autosegments -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Five: Accent -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diacritics -- 3. Melodies -- 4. Tonga -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Six: Rule Properties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prelinking -- 3. Extratonality: the Case of Margi -- 4. Polarity -- 5. Assignment of Rules to Components -- Notes -- References -- Index of Languages -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This book is a revised version of my Ph.D. dissertation that was submitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. Although much of the analysis and argumentation of the dissertation has survived rewriting, the organization has been considerably changed. To Paul Kiparsky and Morris Halle, lowe a major debt. Not only has it been a great privilege to work on phonology with both of them, but it is hard to imagine what this piece of research would have looked like without them. (They, of course, may well imagine a number of appropriate ways in which the work could be different had I not been involved .... ) In addition, special thanks are due to Ken Hale, the third member of my thesis committee. Our discussions of a variety of topics (including tone) helped me to keep a broader outlook on language than might have otherwise been the result of concentrating on a thesis topic.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Scandinavian languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Germanic languages.
    Abstract: Swedish and the Head-Feature Convention -- Clause-Bounded Reflexives in Modern Icelandic -- The Typology of Anaphoric Dependencies: Icelandic (and Other) Reflexives -- Some Comments on Reflexivization in Icelandic -- On Anaphora and Predication in Norwegian -- The Double Object Construction in Danish -- Som and the Binding Theory -- COMP, INFL, and Germanic Word Order -- On Auxiliaries, AUX and VPs in Icelandic -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The present collection of papers grew out of a Workshop on Scandinavian Syntax and Theory of Grammar, held in Trondheim in 1982. Five of the contributions - those by Maling, Herslund, Cooper, Platzack and Thniinsson - are developments of papers read at this workshop, and all of the contributions reflect (and have partly inspired) the strong momentum which this area of research has gained over the last few years. It is our hope that the collection will be useful for those who want to familiarize themselves with this research, as well as for those actively engaged in it. We are grateful to the authors for their collaboration in getting the volume together, and to Frank Heny and the Reidel staff (Martin Scrivener, editor, in particular) for their help, encouragement and patience through the various phases of the production of this book. Very many thanks also to our anonymous referees, and to Elisabet Engdahl for help and advice. KIRST! KOCH CHRISTENSEN LARS HELLAN vii LARS HELLAN AND KIRSTI KOCH CHRISTENSEN INTRODUCTION O. INTRODUCTION A natural theoretical perspective for a language-family-oriented anthology like the present one is that of COMPARATIVE RESEARCH. This is not to say that the papers of this volume are all focused on comparative issues (in fact, most of them are not), but rather that the language family from which most of the data are drawn lends itself naturally to comparative studies.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Romance languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: I: Verb Classes -- I: Intransitive Verbs and Auxiliaries -- 2: The Syntax of Inversion -- 3: on Reconstruction and Other Matters -- II: Complex Predicates -- 4: Causative Constructions -- 5: Restructuring Constructions -- 6: Reflexives -- Closing Remarks -- Index of Names -- Analytical Index.
    Abstract: In the course of our everyday lives, we generally take our knowledge of language for granted. Occasionally, we may become aware of its great practical importance, but we rarely pay any attention to the formal properties that language has. Yet these properties are remarkably complex. So complex that the question immediately arises as to how we could know so much. The facts that will be considered in this book should serve well to illustrate this point. We will see for example that verbs like arrivare 'arrive' and others like telefonare 'telephone', which are superficially similar, actually differ in a large number of respects, some fairly well known, others not. Why should there be such differencces. we may ask. And why should it be that if a verb behaves like arrivare and unlike tetefonare in one respect. it will do so in all others consistently, and how could everyone know it? To take another case, Italian has two series of pronouns: stressed and unstressed. Thus, for example, alongside of reflexive se stesso 'himself which is the stressed form. one finds si which is unstressed but otherwise synonymous. Yet we will see that the differences between the two could not simply be stress versus lack of stress, as their behavior is radically different under a variety of syntactic conditions.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Logic ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: I/Constraints on Denotations -- 1 / Determiners -- 2 / Quantifiers -- 3 / All Categories -- 4 / Conditionals -- 5 / Tense and Modality -- 6 / Natural Logic -- II/Dynamics of Interpretation -- 7 / Categorial Grammar -- 8 / Semantic Automata -- III/Methodology of Semantics -- 9 / Logical Semantics as an Empirical Science -- 10/ The Logic of Semantics -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Recent developments in the semantics of natural language seem to lead to a genuine synthesis of ideas from linguistics and logic, producing novel concepts and questions of interest to both parent disciplines. This book is a collection of essays on such new topics, which have arisen over the past few years. Taking a broad view, developments in formal semantics over the past decade can be seen as follows. At the beginning stands Montague's pioneering work, showing how a rigorous semantics can be given for complete fragments of natural language by creating a suitable fit between syntactic categories and semantic types. This very enterprise already dispelled entrenched prejudices concerning the separation of linguistics and logic. Having seen the light, however, there is no reason at all to stick to the letter of Montague's proposals, which are often debatable. Subsequently, then, many improvements have been made upon virtually every aspect of the enterprise. More sophisticated grammars have been inserted (lately, lexical-functional grammar and generalized phrase structure grammar), more sensitive model structures have been developed (lately, 'partial' rather than 'total' in their com­ position), and even the mechanism of interpretation itself may be fine-tuned more delicately, using various forms of 'representations' mediating between linguistic items and semantic reality. In addition to all these refinements of the semantic format, descriptive coverage has extended considerably.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics
    Abstract: 1. Linguistic Theory and Syntactic Development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Parameterized Theory of UG -- 3. An Overview -- 4. The Theory of Grammar -- Notes -- 2. The Null Subject Phenomenon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Structure of INFL -- 3. Null Subjects and the Identity of AG -- 4. Summary -- Notes -- 3. The AG/PRO Parameter in Early Grammars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Null Subjects in Early Language -- 3. The Early Grammar of English (G1) -- 4. The Restructuring of G1 -- 5. Summary -- Notes -- 4. Some Comparative Data -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Early Grammars of English and Italian: A Comparison -- 3. Early German -- Notes -- 5. Discontinuous Models of Linguistic Development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantically-Based Child Grammars -- 3. Semantically-Based Grammars: Some Empirical Inadequacies -- Notes -- 6. Further Issues in Acquisition Theory -- 1. Summary -- 2. The Initial State -- 3. Instantaneous vs. Non-Instantaneous Acquisition 168 Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This book is perhaps the most stunning available demonstration of the explanatory power of the parametric approach to linguistic theory. It is akin, not to a deductive proof, but to the discovery of a footprint in a far-off place which leaves an archeologist elated. The book is full of intricate reasoning, but the stunning aspect is that the reasoning moves between not only complex syntax and diverse languages, but it makes predictions about what two-year-old children will assume about the jumble of linguistic input that confronts them. Those predictions, Hyams shows, are supported by a discriminating analysis of acquisition data in English and Italian. Let us examine the linguistic context for a moment before we discuss her theory. The ultimate issue in linguistic theory is the explanation of how a child can acquire any human language. To capture this fact we must posit an innate mechanism which meets two opposite constraints: it must be broad enough to account for the diversity of human language, and narrow enough so that the child does not make irrelevant hypotheses about his own language, particularly ones from which there is no recovery. That is, a child must not posit a grammar which permits all of the sentences of a language as well as other sentences which are not in the language. In a word, the child must not create a language in which one cannot make adult discriminations between grammatical and ungrammatical.
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    ISBN: 9789400953239
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 348 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 27
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Scandinavian languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Germanic languages.
    Abstract: I. Introduction -- 1. Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- 2. Unbounded Dependencies -- 3. Questions in Swedish -- 4. The Semantics of Questions -- 5. Extensions of the Present Study -- Notes -- II. Recent Approaches to Unbounded Dependencies -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Short Overview of Relevant Data from Swedish -- 2. Arguments for Transformations -- 3. Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammars -- 4. Cooper’s Proposal -- 5. Phrase Linking Grammars -- 6. Unbounded Dependencies in the Government-Binding Framework -- 7. Choosing a Framework -- Notes -- III. A Frame Work for Swedish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Format of Rules -- 3. Quantification -- 4. Questions -- 5. Pronouns -- 6. Gaps -- 7. Constraining the Framework -- 8. Summary -- Notes -- IV. The Interprentaion of Questions -- 1. Some Previous Approaches to Questions -- 2. Quantifying Into Questions -- 3. Some Arguments Against Quantifying Into Questions -- 4. A Relational Approach to Interrogative Quantifiers -- 5. Interaction Between Interrogative Quantifiers and Other Quantifiers -- 6. The Internal Structure of Interrogative Constituents -- 7. Multiple WH Questions -- 8. Questions Involving Other Categories -- 9. An Alternative Approach -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- V. A Comparison with EST-GB -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic Interpretation in Transformational Grammar -- 3. Characterizing wh-Movement -- 4. wh-Interpretation and Reconstruction at LF -- 5. Bound Anaphors in Moved Constituents -- 6. Higginbotham and May’s Theory of Questions -- Notes -- VI. Restricting the Interpretation of Pronouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Disjoint Reference and Non-Coreference -- 3. Cross-over -- Notes -- VII. Theorotical Postcript -- 1. Linked Trees -- 2. Storage -- 3. Relational Readings -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    ISBN: 9789400954106
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (268p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Language Library, Texts and Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 26
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Semantics ; Semiotics. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I: Introduction to Game-Theoretical Semantics -- 1. General -- 2. Formal first-order languages -- 3. Equivalence with Tarski-type truth-definitions -- 4. Translation to higher-order languages -- 5. Partially ordered quantifiers -- 6. Subgames and functional interpretations -- 7. Extension to natural languages -- 8. Similarities and differences between formal and natural languages -- 9. Competing ordering principles -- 10. Atomic sentences -- 11. Further rules for natural languages -- 12. Explanatory strategies -- Notes to Part I -- II: Definite Descriptions -- 1. Russell on definite descriptions -- 2. Prima facie difficulties with Russell’s theory -- 3. Can we localize Russell’s theory? -- 4. Game-theoretical solution to the localization problem -- 5. Anaphoric “the” in formal languages -- 6. Applications -- 7. Epithetic and counterepithetic the-phrases -- 8. Vagaries of the alleged head-anaphor relation -- 9. The anaphoric use of definite descriptions as a semantical phenomenon -- 10. The quantifier-exclusion phenomenon in natural languages -- 11. Inductive choice sets -- 12. Other uses of “the” -- 13. The Russellian use -- 14. The generic use motivated -- 15. Conclusions from the “pragmatic deduction” -- Notes to Part II -- III: Towards a Semantical Theory of Pronominal Anaphora -- I: Different Approaches to Anaphora -- II: A Game-Theoretical Approach to Anaphora -- III: The Exclusion Principle -- IV: General Theoretical Issues -- V: GTS expalains Coreference Restrictions -- VI: Comparisons with Other Treatments -- Notes to Part III -- Name Index.
    Abstract: I n order to appreciate properly what we are doing in this book it is necessary to realize that our approach to linguistic theorizing differs from the prevailing views. Our approach can be described by indicating what distinguishes it from the methodological ideas current in theoretical linguistics, which I consider seriously misguided. Linguists typically construe their task in these days as that of making exceptionless generalizations from particular examples. This explanatory strategy is wrong in several different ways. It presupposes that we can have "intuitions" about particular examples, usually examples invented by the linguist himself or herself, reliable and sharp enough to serve as a basis of sharp generalizations. It also presupposes that we cannot have equally reliable direct access to general linguistic regularities. Both assumptions appear to me extremely dubious, and the first of them has in effect been challenged by linguists like Dwight Bol inger. There is also some evidence that the degree of unanimity among linguists is fairly low when it comes to less clear cases, even in connection with such relatively simple questions as grammaticality (acceptability). For this reason we have tried to rely more on quotations from contemporary fiction, newspapers and magazines than on linguists' and philosophers' ad hoc examples. I also find it strange that some of the same linguists as believe that we all possess innate ideas about general characteristics of humanly possible grammars assume that we can have access to them only via their particular consequences.
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    ISBN: 9789400952775
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (424p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Language Library, Text and Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 25
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 25
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Semiotics. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: I. The Semantic Variability of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes -- 1. Introduction to Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English -- 2. Traditional Thoughts on the Semantic Variability of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes -- 3. Plan of Discussion -- 4. Some Syntactic Conventions -- Footnotes -- II. Modality and the Interpretation of Free Adjuncts -- 1. The Semantic Bifurcation of Free Adjuncts in Modal Contexts -- 2. Explaining the Entailment Properties of Strong and Weak Adjuncts in Modal Contexts -- 3. A Semantic Correlate of the Distinction between Strong and Weak Adjuncts -- 4. Chapter Summary -- Footnotes -- III. Tense and the Interpretation of Free Adjuncts -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. The Temporal Reference of Free Adjuncts -- 3. Frequency Adverbs and the Distinction between Strong and Weak Adjuncts -- 4. A Generalization Operator -- 5. Chapter Summary -- Footnotes -- IV. Aspect and the Interpretation of Free Adjuncts -- 1. The Perfect Tense and the Interpretation of Free Adjuncts -- 2. An Argument for Free Adjuncts as Main Tense Adverbs -- 3. The Progressive Aspect and the Interpretation of Free Adjuncts -- 4. Chapter Summary -- Footnotes -- V. The Formal Semantics of Absolutes -- 1. Modality and the Interpretation of Absolutes -- 2. Tense and the Interpretation of Absolutes -- 3. Absolutes as Main Tense Adverbs -- 4. Chapter Summary -- Footnotes -- VI. Inference and the Logical Role of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes -- 1. Summary of the Proposed Semantic Analysis of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes -- 2. The Role of Inference in the Interpretation of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes -- 3. On the Possibility of Deriving Absolute Constructions from Adverbial Subordinate Clauses -- 4. On the Possibility that the Logical Role of an Absolute Construction is Always Inferred -- 5. Theoretical Implications -- Footnotes -- Appendix - A Formal Fragment for Free Adjuncts and Absolutes -- 1. Intensional Logic -- 2. Syntax and Translation Rules for a Fragment of English -- 2.1. Syntax -- 2.2. Translation -- References -- Index of Names -- General Index.
    Abstract: The goal of this book is to investigate the semantics of absolute constructions in English; specifically, my object is to provide an explanation for the semantic variability of such constructions. As has been widely noted in traditional grammatical studies of English, free adjuncts and absolute phrases have the ability to playa number of specific logical roles in the sentences in which they appear; yet, paradoxically, they lack any overt indication of their logical connection to the clause which they modify. How, then, is the logical function of an absolute construction determined? In attempting to answer this question, one must inevitably address a number of more general issues: Is the meaning assigned to a linguistic expression necessarily determined by linguistic rules, or can the grammar of a language in some cases simply underdetermine the interpretation of expressions? Are the truthconditions of a sentence ever sensitive to the inferences of language users? If so, then is it possible to maintain the validity of any really substantive version of the Compositionality Principle? These are, of course, issues of great inherent interest to anyone concerned with the formal syntax and semantics of natural language, with the philosophy of language, or with language processing. The descriptive framework assumed throughout is the semantic theory developed by Richard Montague (1970a, 1970b, 1973) and his followers. (For a very thorough introduction to Montague semantics, the reader may refer to Dowty, Wall and Peters (1981 ).
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    ISBN: 9789400954144
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (232p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 28
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Semantics ; Semiotics. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I / Adverbs and Events -- II / Adverbs of Space and Time -- III / Interval Semantics and Logical Words -- Appendix to Chapter III (1985) -- IV / Prepositions and Points of View -- V / Interval Semantics for Some Event Expressions -- VI / Adverbs of Causation -- VII / Adverbial Modification in Situation Semantics -- Bibliographical Index -- General Index.
    Abstract: Adverbial modification is probably one of the least understood areas of linguistics. The essays in this volume all address the problem of how to give an analysis of adverbial modifiers within truth-conditional semantics. Chapters I-VI provide analyses of particular modifiers within a possible­ worlds framework, and were written between 1974 and 1981. Original publication details of these chapters may be found on p. vi. Of these, all but Chapter I make essential use of the idea that the time reference involved in tensed sentences should be a time interval rather than a single instant. The final chapter (Chapter VII) was written especially for this volume and investigates the question of how the 'situation semantics' recently devised by Jon Barwise and John Perry, as a rival to possible-worlds semantics, might deal with adverbs. In addition I have included an appendix to Chapter III and an introduction which links all the chapters together.
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    ISBN: 9789401539609
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (532p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 19
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Linguistics ; Phenomenology ; Science—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Style.
    Abstract: Inaugural Study -- The Aesthetics of Nature in the Human Condition -- I The Poetics of the Sea as an Element in the Human Condition: Literary Interpretation -- A. Resoundings of the Sea in the Elemental Twilight of the Human Soul -- Death or Life of the Spirit: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Thalassian Poetry in the Nineteenth Century -- The Waves of Life in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves -- On the Shores of Nothingness: Beckett’s Embers -- Ego Formation and the Land/Sea Metaphor in Conrad’s Secret Sharer -- Wordsworth: The Sea and Its Double -- El mistico significado del mar (en el lenguaje poetico) -- B. Man’s Elemental Response to the Vital Challenge at the Cross Section of Ancient Cultures -- Between Land and Sea: The End of the Southern Sung -- Hesiodic Fable and Weather Lore: Text and Context in Figurative Discourse -- The Response of Biblical Man to the Challenge of the Sea -- The Sea as Metaphor: An Aspect of the Modern Japanese Novel -- C. The Poetic Inspiration of the Sea in Literary Experience -- The Poetic and Elemental Language of the Sea -- The Sea as Medium for Artistic Experience -- Las dimensiones poéticas del mar y la idea del tiempo -- The Oneiric Valorization of the Sea: Instances of Poetic Sensibility and the „Non-Savoir“ -- Figuring the Elements: Trope and Image in Shakespeare -- D. The Watery Mirror of the Elemental -- Mirror Reflections: The Poetics of Water in French Baroque Poetry -- The St. Lawrence in the Poetry of Gatien Lapointe -- II The Elemental Thread in the Twilight of Consciousness; The Ciphering of Life-Significance in the Poiesis of Art — From Interpretation to Theory -- A. On the Brink -- On the Brink: The Artist and the Sea -- The Rapture of the Deep -- The Voices of Silence and Underwater Experience -- A Contrast Between the Sea and the Mountain: A Comparative Study of Occidental and Chinese Poetic Symbolism -- B. The Shorelines: Elemental Moves in the Twilight of Consciousness -- Literal/Littoral/Littorananima: The Figure on the Shore in the Works of James Joyce -- Already Not-Yet: Shoreline Fiction Metaphase -- Thalassic Regression: The Cipher of the Ocean in Gottfried Benn’s Poetry -- Derrida and Husserl on the Status of Retention -- Nonlogical Moves and Nature Metaphors -- C. Poetic Discourse: „Reality“ and the Retrieval of Life-Significance -- The Reading as Emotional Response: The Case of a Haiku -- Literature and the Ladder of Discourse -- The Sea in Faust and Goethe’s Verdict on His Hero -- III Creative Orchestration in the Poiesis of Life and in Fiction -- Preamble -- What Makes Philosophical Literature Philosophical? -- Kaelin on Philosophical Literature -- The Hermeneutics of Literary Impressionism: Interpretation and Reality in James, Conrad, and Ford -- Hermeneutics and History: A Response to Paul Armstrong -- Index of Names.
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