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'And' :conjunction reduction redux
In this book, Barry Schein argues that "and" is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. "And" always means "&," across the varied constructions in which it is tokened in natural language. Schein examines the constructions that challenge his thesis, and shows that the objections disappear when these constructions are translated into Eventish, a neo-Davidsonian event…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 1019 pages) :illustrations.
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Uttering Trees
Here, Richards investigates the conditions imposed upon syntax by the need to create syntactic objects that can be interpreted by phonology - that is, objects that can be pronounced.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282369
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- 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) :illustrations.
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Locality in Minimalist Syntax
Providing a reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255349
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- 1 online resource (x, 149 pages).
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Arguments as Relations
Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289252
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- 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals
Here, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289726
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- 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) :illustrations.
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Language and Equilibrium
In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a system of interdependent games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281263
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) :illustrations
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Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational …
An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question …
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- 9780262259071
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) :illustrations.
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The generative lexicon
The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, it lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning…
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- 9780262281966
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- 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages).
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Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology
"A Bradford book.""This volume is the result of the City University of New York (CUNY) Phonology Forum Symposium on Architecture and Representation in Phonology that was held in Manhattan on 20-21 February 2004"--Acknowledgments.The essays in this volume address foundational questions in phonology that cut across different schools of thought within the discipline.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliograp…
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- 9780262255325
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- 1 online resource (vi, 418 pages) :illustrations.
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The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky
Paul Kiparksy's work in linguistics has been wide-ranging and fundamental. His contributions have influenced virtually every field of contemporary linguistics, from generative phonology to poetic theory. This is a collection of essays by his colleagues and students.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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