Arguments in Syntax and Semantics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arguments in Syntax and Semantics write by Alexander Williams. This book was released on 2015-01-29. Arguments in Syntax and Semantics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics. Engages foundational issues in both syntax and semantics, with attention to the correspondence between structure at the two levels. Chapters include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.
Aspect and Predication
Aspect and Predication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aspect and Predication write by Gillian Ramchand. This book was released on 1997. Aspect and Predication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the systematic correspondences between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation in the domain of predicate-argument relationships. It takes as its starting point the striking effects of nominal argument interpretation on aspectual semantics, pursuing the intuition that these effects are not quirky or exceptional, but are in fact the most visible reflexes of a more pervasive and systematic interaction between the aspectual event structure of a predicate and its arguments. The Scottish Gaelic language is the empirical base of the investigation, as it exhibits a set of predicational structures which interact in a highly visible way with its aspectual system. The book provides a detailed working out of a semantic system of argument classification which moves away from lexically-driven thematic roles in the traditional sense and towards a more constrained, syntactically motivated, set of primitives.
The Syntax of Argument Structure
The Syntax of Argument Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syntax of Argument Structure write by Leonard H. Babby. This book was released on 2009-03-26. The Syntax of Argument Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book proposes an intriguing theory of argument structure. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the sentence's case and grammatical relations.
Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations
Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations write by Maia Duguine. This book was released on 2010. Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language Acquisition. Rigorous theoretical analyses are combined with empirical work on specific aspects of argument structure. The book brings together authors working in different linguistic fields (semantics, syntax, and language acquisition), who explore new findings as well as more established data, but then from new theoretical perspectives. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider cross-linguistic perspectives. "Argument structure plays a central role in the articulation of syntax. Yet whether this contribution is primordial or derivative, derivational or representational, minimalist or cartographic, is entirely up for grabs. This is what makes a book like the present one equivalent to a murder thriller: one cannot finish one chapter without wanting to read the next. While the solution to the underlying mystery remains as open as it ever was, the clues offered here seem just impossible to ignore."
The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure
The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure write by Stephen Wechsler. This book was released on 1995-06-30. The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A central problem on the syntax-semantics interface is the mapping between semantic roles and syntactic arguments, usually termed 'linking'. This book presents a clear and concise treatment of linking which departs significantly from models employing a problematical intermediate level where roles are classified into thematic role types such as 'agent' and 'goal'. Instead, the connection between a verb's meaning and its argument structure is shown to be quite direct. This direct connection appeals to certain fundamental aspects of verb meaning, while more specific semantic relations such as 'goal' are relevant to linking only when such relations are associated with the meanings of prepositions and similar forms. As a result, the theory is firmly grounded in the semantic content of verbs and prepositions.
