Hakutulokset: Hakutulos
yhteensä 89 hakutulosta
Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages
This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast …
Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including …
Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles
VIrtually all the papers in these volumes originated in presentations at the Fourth Groningen Round Table, held in July 1980. That conference, organ ized by the Institute for …
Quantification in Natural Languages
This volume of papers grew outof a research project on "Cross-Linguistic Quantification" originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee in 1987 at the University of …
Entities and Indices
In ordinary discourse we appear to ta1k about many things that have seemed mysterious to philosophers. We say that there has been a hitch in our arrangements or that the solution …
The Parameter of Aspect
Presents a unified theory of aspect as a parameter of universal grammar. The text provides syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to a single domain, as well as linguistic …
Ways of Scope Taking
The present volume is as much a book co-authored by all the contributors as it is an edited collection of their papers. Most of the contributors have been involved in regular …
Locality in WH Quantification
Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is derived from S-structure by local movement. The primary data for …
Pluralities
Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals. The author argues, contrary to many of those theories, that plural discourse …
Indian Philosophy of Language
What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition? As recently as twenty or thirty years ago this question simply would not have arisen. …
Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including …
Predicates and Their Subjects
Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's …