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Existential Sentences

2014-02-03 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Existential Sentences by : Michael Lumsden

Download or read book Existential Sentences written by Michael Lumsden. This book was released on 2014-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.

Existential Sentences in English

2014-01-10 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Existential Sentences in English by : Gary L. Milsark

Download or read book Existential Sentences in English written by Gary L. Milsark. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence of the unstressed, non-deictic, ‘existential’ there. Thus the term will be used as a characterisation of a class of syntactic objects, not as a semantic description. With ES sentences including formations such as ‘There were several people talking’ and ‘There ensued a riot’, perhaps nowhere else do we find so clearly displayed the complexity and subtlety of the syntactic and semantic interactions which determine the nature of human language.

The Representation of (in)definiteness

1987 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 1987
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Book Synopsis The Representation of (in)definiteness by : Eric J. Reuland

Download or read book The Representation of (in)definiteness written by Eric J. Reuland. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Representation of(In)definiteness collects the most important current research, reflecting a wide range of approaches, on a central theoretical issue in linguistics: characterizing the distinction between definite and indefinite expressions. The authors of these 11 original essays, which draw on current work in theoretical syntax and semantics, were charged by the editors to take more than usual heed of alternative analyses offered by other theories, thereby promoting cross fertilization of syntactic and semantic ideas, concepts, and argumentation. The project as a whole is grounded in the belief that explicit comparison of seemingly incompatible approaches is essential to improve our understanding of the nature and structure of natural language. Eric J. Reuland and Alice ter Meulen are Professors of Linguistics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the University of Washington respectively. The Representation of (In)definiteness is fourteenth in the series Current Studies in Linguistics, edited by Samuel Jay Keyser.

Existential Sentences in English

1979 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 1979
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Book Synopsis Existential Sentences in English by : Gary L. Milsark

Download or read book Existential Sentences in English written by Gary L. Milsark. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Syntax and Semantics

2010-04-15 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2010-04-15
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Book Synopsis Between Syntax and Semantics by : C.T. James Huang

Download or read book Between Syntax and Semantics written by C.T. James Huang. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events.

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