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A Semantics For The English Existential Construction

by Louise Mcnally

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 First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction? One of the principal goals is to develop an interpretation for the construction that will specifically address other properties of the postcopular DP. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.
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Semantics For The English Existential Construction

by Louise Mcnally

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction? One of the principal goals is to develop an interpretation for the construction that will specifically address other properties of the postcopular DP. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.
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On The Semantics Of Wh-Clauses

by Stephen Berman

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 First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh-clauses, whose interpretations are easily and, the author argues, plausibly rendered by a logicosemantic analysis on which wh-phrases translate as open sentences, that is, as expressions of the semantically interpreted representation which contain free variables. After a review of influential contemporary analyses of the semantics of questions, concentrating on issues related to the truthconditional interpretation of these constructions, the author goes on to analyse logicosemantic similarities between wh-phrases and indefinite NPs. This analysis is extended in chapter V to account for asymmetries between wh-phrases and indefinites, but is preceded by the engagement and refutation of some of the challenges to it. The appendices discuss some peripheral points relating to the central points made by the author which are in need of further study.
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Anatomy Of Language - Saying What We Mean

by Marjorie Boulton

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 First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments. This book provides much information and much material for profitable discussion, helping to make accessible what can be a highly academic subject comprehensible only to a minority. This book provides a highly valuable foundation for students of linguistics and will provide preparation for further study.
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Anaphora And Semantic Interpretation

by Tanya Reinhart

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 First published in 1983, this book examines anaphora â€" a central issue in linguistic theory as it lies at the crossroads of several major problems. On the one hand it is believed that the same conditions that govern the interpretation of anaphora also govern syntactic movement rules but on the other, while anaphora is known to interact with various discourse and semantic considerations, it also provides a clear instance of the dependency of the semantic interpretation of sentences upon semantic properties of natural language. This book has two major goals: the first is a comprehensive analysis of sentence-level anaphora that addresses the questions posed above, and the second is an examination of the broader issues of the relations between the structural properties of sentences and their semantic interpretation within the hypotheses of the autonomy of syntax and of interpretative semantics shown by Chomsky.
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Semantics And Pragmatics Of Preposing

by Gregory L. Ward

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 First published in 1988, this book examines the aspects of pragmatic competence involving the class of preposing constructions in English. By limiting the scope of investigation to particular grammatical categories, the author argues previous studies have failed to capture significant pragmatic generalisations. The author asserts what distinguishes one preposing type from another are the semantic and pragmatic properties of the referent of that constituent. After a review of the past literature on preposing, the book goes on to present a pragmatic theory in which two discourse functions of preposing are proposed. It then provides a functional taxonomy of the various preposing types which the theory is designed to account for. One type of preposing, Topicalization, and two of its subtypes, Proposition Affirmation and Ironic Preposing, are discussed in detail in the subsequent chapters before the book concludes with a summary along with directions for future research.
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German Temporal Semantics - Three-Dimensional Tense Logic And A Gpsg Fragment

by John A. Nerbonne

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 First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German. The framework is that of a model-theoretic semantics, more specifically one incorporating a multi-dimensional tense logic. The first chapter presents this logic and argues that three dimensions are optimal for the description of natural language temporalia. The second chapter applies this theory to the analysis of temporal meaning in German. Frame adverbials, the Present and Past Tenses, duratives, aspectual adverbials using in, and the adverbials particle schon are examined. Chapter 3 provides a formal syntax to bear the semantic analysis proposed in the second chapter and the final chapter explores syntactic and semantic extensions of the fragment, showing how the Perfect, the particle noch, the passive, and a distinct reading of frame adverbials may be accommodated.
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Semiotic Perspectives

by Sandor Hervey

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 First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is â€˜semiotics. It begins by tracing the beginnings of modern semiotics in the works two pioneering figures â€" Saussure and Peirce â€" in order to present fundamental assumptions, notions and distinctions which provide an essential background to the more recent developments. The author then goes on to look at Behavioural Semiotics, Luis Prietoâ€™s idea of "lâ€™Acte Semique", Austinâ€™s theory of â€˜Speech Actsâ€™ and Searleâ€™s elaborations, Barthesâ€™ move away from philosophical and scientific approaches in his ideology of Socio-Cultural Signification, Functionalism and Axiomatic Functionalism, style as a form of communication, semiotics of the cinema, and communicative behaviour in non-human species.
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Lexical Representations And The Semantics Of Complementation

by Jean Mark Gawron

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 First published in 1983, this book represents an effort to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical semantics that pays heed to the needs of a theory of discourse interpretation, a theory of compositional semantics, and a theory of lexical rules. The first chapter proposes a basic framework in which to undertake lexical description and a lexical semantic analogue to the classical syntactic distinction between subcategorized for complement and adjunct. This apparatus for lexical description is expanded in the second chapter. A theory of the semantics of nuclear terms along with a proposed implementation is presented in chapter three. The fourth chapter argues that a number of regular, semantically governed valence alternations could be captured in frame representations that give rise to various kinds of realisation options. The final chapter examines interaction of these phenomena with a general account of prediction or control along with the general framework of lexical representation.
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Descriptions In Context

by Cleo A. Condoravdi

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 First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions â€" taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a special type of indefinites that have an interpretation commonly associated with definites. It further argues that the felicity conditions associated with indefinite NPâ€™s can vary and develops a more fine-grained theory of novelty within the framework of File Change Semantics. More generally, this work can be seen as providing an empirical argument in favour of a dynamic theory of meaning and against the more traditional truth-conditional theory.
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Issues In The Semantics And Pragmatics Of Disjunction

by Mandy Simons

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 First published in 2000, this book is about sentences containing the word or, dealing primarily with sentences in which or conjoins clauses, but also some cases in which it conjoins expressions of other categories. The author aims to give an account of the discourse properties and felicity conditions of disjunction, and to use this account in explaining the behaviour of presupposition projection and of anaphora in disjunctive sentences. The author begins by giving an account of the discourse properties and felicity conditions of disjunction before turning to the presupposition projection problem. The final two chapters discuss anaphora and its interactions with disjunction.
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Language And Materialism - Developments In Semiology And The Theory Of The Subject

by John Ellis e Rosalind Coward

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 First published in 1977, this book presents a comprehensive and lucid guide through the labyrinths of semiology and structuralism â€" perhaps the most significant systems of study to have been developed in the twentieth century. The authors describe the early presuppositions of structuralism and semiology which claim to be a materialist theory of language based on Saussureâ€™s notion of the sign. They show how these presuppositions have been challenged by work following Althusserâ€™s development of the Marxist theory of ideology, and by Lacanâ€™s re-reading of Freud. The book explains how the encounter of two disciplines â€" psychoanalysis and Marxism â€" on the ground of their common problem â€"language â€" has produced a new understanding of society and its subjects. It produces a critical re-examination of the traditional Marxist theory of ideology, together with the concepts of sign and identity of the subject.
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Word Meaning And Belief

by S.G. Pulman

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 First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguistsâ€™ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation and it is shown that attempts by linguists to answer Quineâ€™s arguments by proposing universal â€˜semantic primitivesâ€™ or their equivalents is unsatisfactory. The relation between the theory of word meaning and the theory of categorisation is explored, and an alternative to Roschâ€™s â€˜family resemblanceâ€™ account of the â€˜prototypeâ€™ effect in both nouns and verbs is provided. The author argues that identification of certain implicit categories like â€˜actionâ€™ and â€˜eventâ€™ can be related to principles of individuation, and builds on the work of Kripke and Putnam on proper names and natural kind terms. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and the philosophy of language.
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Principles Of Semiotic

by David S. Clarke

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 First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the â€˜cultural semioticsâ€™ of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris. The book is divided into two parts, with the first two chapters providing the background for the more systematic discussions of signs at different levels taken up in the last three. In the final chapter issues that have become the focus of recent philosophy of language regarding the reference, meaning, and truth of sentences are discussed in light of the analogies to more primitive signs developed in the preceding two chapters.
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A Semantics For The English Existential Construction

by Louise Mcnally

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 First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction? One of the principal goals is to develop an interpretation for the construction that will specifically address other properties of the postcopular DP. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.
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Issues In The Semantics And Pragmatics Of Disjunction

by Mandy Simons

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Semiotic Perspectives

by Sandor Hervey

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Principles Of Semiotic

by David S. Clarke

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A Semantics For Groups And Events

by Peter Lasersohn

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On The Semantics Of Wh-Clauses

by Stephen Berman

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Language And Materialism - Developments In Semiology And The Theory Of The Subject

by John Ellis e Rosalind Coward

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Word Meaning And Belief

by S.G. Pulman

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Anaphora And Semantic Interpretation

by Tanya Reinhart

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The Semantics And Pragmatics Of Preposing

by Gregory L. Ward

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