Existential Sentences

Author : Michael Lumsden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317933710
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existential Sentences written by Michael Lumsden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 269 pages. 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.

Author : Gary L. Milsark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317931580
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existential Sentences in English written by Gary L. Milsark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 269 pages. 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.

Author : Eric J. Reuland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262181266
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Representation of (in)definiteness written by Eric J. Reuland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 374 pages. 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.

Author : Gary L. Milsark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Existential Sentences in English written by Gary L. Milsark and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ileana Comorovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061978
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existence: Semantics and Syntax written by Ileana Comorovski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays grew out of the workshop ‘Existence: Semantics and Syntax’, which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002. The workshop, organized by Ileana Comorovski and Claire Gardent, was supported by a grant from the Reseau ́ de Sciences Cognitives du Grand Est (‘Cognitive Science Network of the Greater East’), which is gratefully acknowledged. The ?rst e- tor wishes to thank Claire Gardent, Fred Landman, and Georges Rebuschi for encouraging her to pursue the publication of a volume based on papers presented at the workshop. Among those who participated in the workshop was Klaus von Heusinger, who joined Ileana Comorovski in editing this volume. Besides papers that developed out of presentations at the workshop, the volume contains invited contributions. We are grateful to Wayles Browne, Fred Landman, Paul Portner, and Georges Rebuschi for their help with reviewing some of the papers. Our thanks go also to a Springer reviewer for the careful reading of the book manuscript. We wish to thank all the participants in the workshop, not only those whose contributions appear in this volume, for making the workshop an int- active and constructive event. Ileana Comorovski Klaus von Heusinger vii ILEANA COMOROVSKI AND KLAUS VON HEUSINGER INTRODUCTION The notion of ‘existence’, which we take to have solid intuitive grounding, plays a central role in the interpretation of at least three types of linguistic constructions: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)de?nite noun phrases.

Author : C.T. James Huang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135217580
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Syntax and Semantics written by C.T. James Huang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 487 pages. 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.

Author : Violeta Kalėdaitė
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existential Sentences in English and Lithuanian written by Violeta Kalėdaitė and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential sentences in the world's languages tend to develop specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical properties. The present work offers a contrastive functional analysis of these constructions in two typologically unrelated languages, English and Lithuanian. The study focuses on the relationship between the syntactic structure of different existential sentence types and their meaning; it also explores the semantic and pragmatic parameters relevant to the structural differences within a single language and across the two compared languages. Most importantly, a new definition of the existential sentence, which takes into account both semantic and syntactic criteria, is proposed for Lithuanian. The findings are drawn on the basis of the corpus and highlight conspicuous differences in the linguistic representations of the construction in the two languages. With respect to Lithuanian, communicative word order variations, language-specific structures (the BKI and the impersonal passive), and a wider use of lexical verbs present an area of special interest. Contents: The English existential: definition and classification -- General characteristics: structural patterns -- Semantic types -- Word order -- The interpretation of there -- Verbs in the construction -- The definiteness restriction -- Lithuanian existentials: the semantics of the basic sentence patterns -- Types of 'be' existentials -- Communicative types of existential sentences -- Semantic classes of acceptable lexical verbs -- Definite and indefinite subject NPs -- Language-specific existential structures.

Author : Lev D. Beklemishev
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080954847
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, 1971 written by Lev D. Beklemishev and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, 1971

Author : Gary L. Milsark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Existential Sentences in English written by Gary L. Milsark and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Artur Rojszczak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402033964
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Act of Judging to the Sentence written by Artur Rojszczak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed study of the truth-bearers problem, that is, the question of which category of items the predicates ‘true’ and ‘false’ are predicated. The book has two dimensions: historical and systematic. Both focus around Tarski’s semantic theory of truth. The author locates Tarski’s ideas in a broad context of Austrian philosophy, in particular, Brentano’s tradition. However, Bolzano and phenomenology (Husserl and Reinach) are also taken into account. The historical perspective is completed by showing how Tarski was rooted in Polish philosophical tradition originated with Twardowski and his version of Brentanism. The historical considerations are the basis for showing how the idea of truth-bearers as acts of judging was transformed into the theory of truth-bearers as sentences. In particular, the author analyses the way to nominalism in Polish philosophy, culminating in Lesniewski, Kotarbinski and Tarski. This book is indispensable for everybody interested in the evolution of Austrian philosophy from descriptive psychology to semantics. It is also a fundamental contribution toward a deeper understanding of the philosophical background of Tarski’s theory of truth.