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Why America Is Not a New Rome
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
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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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- 0262305631
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- 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) :illustrations.
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Imposters :a study of pronominal agreement
In this work, the authors study the interactions of imposters with a range of grammatical phenomena, including pronominal agreement, coordinate structures, Principle C phenomena epithets, fake indexicals, and a property of pronominal agreement they call homogeneity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301633
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The Syntactic Process
A Bradford book.""In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without forming any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to develop a principled theory of natural grammar that is …
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- 9780262284219
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages).
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The Syntax of (In)dependence
One of the most important discoveries of modern linguistic theory is that abstract structural properties of utterances place subtle restrictions on how we can use a given form or description. For the past thirty years, these restrictions have been explored for possible clues to the exact nature of the structural properties in question. In The Syntax of (In)dependence Ken Safir explores these st…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages).
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The Syntax of Time
Updated versions of talks first presented at the International Round Table on the Syntax of Tense and Aspect in November 2000 at the Universit?e Paris 7"--Preface.Any analysis of the syntax of time is based on a paradox: it must include a syntax-based theory of both tense construal and event construal. Yet while time is undimensional, events have a complex spatiotemporal structure that reflects…
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- 9780262274494
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- 1 online resource (x, 662 pages) :illustrations.
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Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282512
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- 1 online resource (vii, 533 pages) :illustrations.
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On the syntactic composition of manner and motion
Unlike many books and articles that discuss the relation between constructional meaning and the lexicon, 'On the Syntactice Composition of Manner and Motion' examines one phenomenon in detail: the articulation of manner and motion, in three distinct language families - Germanic, Korean, and Romance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account
"A Bradford book."Since the late 1970s, the orthodox view of complex 'that' phrases (e.g., 'that woman eating a granola bar') has been that they are contextually sensitive devices of direct reference. In Complex Demonstratives, Jeffrey King challenges that orthodoxy, showing that quantificational accounts not only are as effective as direct reference accounts but also handle a wider range of da…
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- 9780262277174
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages).
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Optimality-theoretic syntax
Recent work in theoretical syntax has revealed the strong explanatory power of the notions of economy, competition, and optimization. Building grammars entirely upon these elements, Optimality Theory syntax provides a theory of universal grammar with a formally precise and strongly restricted theory of universal typology: cross-linguistic variation arises exclusively from the conflict among uni…
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