Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface - 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 Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface write by Chiara Gianollo. This book was released on 2014-12-12. Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface - 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 Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface write by Jens Fleischhauer. This book was released on 2016-09-15. Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface - 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 Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface write by Carol Tenny. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins in my 1987 dissertation. However, this work has grown beyond the dissertation in a number of important ways. The most important of these advances lie in, first, articulating aspectual roles as linguistic objects over which lexical semantic phenomena can be stated, and over which linking generalizations are stated; second, recognizing that syntactic phenomena may be classified as to whether or not they are sensitive to the core event of event structure; and third, recognizing the modularity of aspectual and thematic/conceptual structure, and associating that modularity with a difference between language-specific and universal language generalizations. The three chapters of the book are organized around these ideas. I have tried to state these ideas as strong theses. Where they make strong predictions I have meant them to do so, as a probe for future research. I hope that other researchers will take up the challenge to investigate, test and develop these ideas across a wider realm of languages than I --as one person --can do.
Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface - 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 Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface write by Chiara Gianollo. This book was released on 2014-12-12. Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface - 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 Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface write by Paolo Lorusso. This book was released on 2018-06-11. The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents theoretical and experimental analyses of the nature of early verbs. At around the age of two years old, children start to combine words and produce their first verbs. Verbal items appear later than nouns in a child’s speech and refer to the relational concepts in the world that are represented in syntax through the argument structure. The central set of data investigated here is based on the analysis of the features of first verbal productions in Italian. Since the appearance of verbs implies the mastery of a mapping procedure between syntactic positions and semantic roles, the syntactic regularities found for each lexical verb class suggest that the relation at the syntax-semantics interface is well-established early on. The non-adult-like sentences are those which involve the mastery of the scope-discourse semantic interface or higher functional syntactic categories. The analysis of the delay in the production and comprehension of some constructions here uncovers some general characteristics of language acquisition devices.
