Semiotics / semiology

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Case, Scope, and Binding investigates the relation between syntax and semantics within a framework which combines the syntactic Government-Binding theory with a novel cross-linguistic theory of case and semantics.

All work is work in progress.

Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition.

Gottlob Frege's Uber Sinn und Bedeutung (`On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy.

In this Introduction we shall sketch a profile of our field of inquiry.

In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science.

Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation.

This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics.

This work is a psycho linguistic investigation of the processing of tense (more specifically, the English past tense): When it is interpreted, how it is interpreted, and what it is interpreted with respect to.

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The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages.

The origins of this book arise from the highly successful second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue that was held in September 2001 in con- junction with Eurospeech 2001.

In 1962 a mimeographed sheet of paper fell into my possession.

The essays in this collection are the outgrowth of a workshop, held in June 1976, on formal approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages.

To the philosopher, the logician, and the linguist, questions have a special fascination.

This piece of work began life as a doctoral thesis written at the University of Texas between 1976 and 1978.

Complementation has received a great deal of attention in the past fifteen to twenty years; various approcahes have been used to study it and different groups of complement-taking verbs have been examined.

The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in linguistic semantics, primarily that of the generative semantics school, with the rigorously formalized syntactic and semantic framework for the analysis of natural languages developed by Richard Montague and his associates, a framework in which truth and denotation with respect to a model are taken as the fundamental semantic notions.

The selection of papers reprinted here traces the development of syntax from structural linguistics through transformational linguistics to operator gram- mar.

GOAL This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate.

In the spring of 1978, one of the authors of this book was sitting in on a course in logic for linguists given by the other author.

VIrtually all the papers in these volumes originated in presentations at the Fourth Groningen Round Table, held in July 1980.

Adverbial modification is probably one of the least understood areas of linguistics.

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.

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.

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.

Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con- sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainly carried out by mathematicians.

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 articles collected in this book are concerned with the treatment of anaphora within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Ex- tended Standard Theory' (EST).

The notion of what someone says is, perhaps surprisingly, some- what less clear than we might be entitled to expect.

In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind.

This book is a collection of papers by leading researchers in computational semantics.

This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing.

This book present a structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law systems.

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum.

This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages.

The integrated theory of dynamic interpretation set out here will be a surprise to advanced researchers in linguistics.

This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation theory, philosophy of law, logic and artificial intelligence.

The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses.

Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles.

This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody-the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language-, and its relevance for English language teaching.

This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences.

Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative.

Our preferences determine how we act and think, but exactly what the mechanics are and how they work is a central cause of concern in many disciplines.

This book argues that languages are composed of sets of ‘signs’, rather than ‘strings’.

Processes constitute the world of human experience - from nature to cognition to social reality.