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Austere realism Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology
This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.
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- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations.
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The locative syntax of experiencers
Experiencers—grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in such a state—are grammatically special. As objects (John scared Mary; loud music annoys me), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across different languages: their syntax is often typical of oblique arguments and their semantic scope is typical of subjects. In The Locati…
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- 9780262259026
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- 1 online resource (vi, 165 pages) :illustrations.
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Supertagging :using complex lexical descriptions in natural language processing
The last decade has seen computational implementations of large hand-crafted natural language grammars in formal frameworks such as Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG), Combinatory Categorical Grammar (CCG), Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), and Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). Grammars in these frameworks typically associate linguistically motivated rich descriptions (Supertags) with word…
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- 9780262312486
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 488 pages :illustrations)
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Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language
How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others--an approach that makes use of semantica…
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Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Concept Structuring Systems
Rev. and expanded version of papers, essays, etc. published during the last twenty years; cf. v. 1, p. 6."A Bradford book."In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention a…
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- 9780262284660
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- 1 online resource (viii, 565 pages) :illustrations.
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Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring
A Bradford book."In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint.One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy approaches t…
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- 9780262284677
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- 1 online resource (viii, 495 pages) :illustrations.
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Indefinite objects :scrambling, choice functions, and differential marking
A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis Lopez presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches map structural configurations to semantic interpretations directly; Lopez links configuration to a mode of semantic composition, with the …
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- 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) :illustrations.
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What it all means
"An introduction to semantics for the general reader. How things mean, from animal communication to music"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Oratio obliqua, oratio recta :an essay on metarepresentation
Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is known as metarepresentation. An example is "Authors believe that people read books." In this book François Recanati discusses the structure of metarepresentation from a variety of perspectives. A…
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- 9780262282178
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 360 pages).
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Type-Logical Semantics
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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