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A syntax of substance
Adger proposes a new approach to phrase structure that eschews functional heads and labels structures exocentrically. The proposal simultaneously simplifies the syntactic system and restricts the range of possible structures, ruling out the ubiquitous (remnant) roll-up derivations and forcing a separation of arguments from their apparent heads. This new system has a number of empirical conseque…
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Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure
Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do children learn their mother tongue, and how does the mind represent basic categories of meaning such as space, time, causalit…
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- 9780262314275
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- 1 online resource (xx, 488 pages) :illustrations.
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Consequences of language :from primary to enhanced intersubjectivity
"Two senior scholars explain what language does to human beings, especially how it affects our intersubjective competence"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Syntax in the treetops
"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts?"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262369091
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Irony and sarcasm
A biography of two troublesome words. Isn't it ironic Or is it Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I ). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms…
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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Austere realism :contextual semantics meets minimal ontology
"A Bradford book."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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :illustrations.
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Learnability and cognition :the acquisition of argument structure
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- 9780262281614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) :illustrations.
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Knowledge of meaning :an introduction to semantic theory
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- 9780262277945
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 639 pages)
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Logic as grammar
"A Bradford book."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 make…
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Metaphor in context
"A Bradford book."Josef Stern addresses the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does metaphorical interpretation, in whole or part, fall within its scope?The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, receiv…
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