The semantics of grammatical dependencies / / by Alastair Butler, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Tohoku University, Japan
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Butler Alastair
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| Titolo: |
The semantics of grammatical dependencies / / by Alastair Butler, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Tohoku University, Japan
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| Pubblicazione: | Bingley, UK : , : Emerald, , 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401.43 |
| Soggetto topico: | Semantics, Comparative |
| Linguistic geography | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Argument Dependencies -- 3: Clause Dependencies -- 4: Unbounded Dependencies -- 5: Intervention and Binding into Relations -- 6: Quantification in Japanese -- 7: Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: SCT implementation -- References -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies argues that constraints of interaction from semantic evaluations enforce grammatical dependency patterns that recur across natural languages and within constructions at intra and inter sentential levels as well as discourse levels. The book develops along three lines. Firstly, a handle is gained on why languages are structured around localities, with localities functioning as actions of 'reset' to permit the reuse of grammatical resources that maintain a fixed semantic contribution. Secondly, sensitivity is brought to the linear and hierarchical placement of scope information to capture ordering effects like accessibility, crossover and intervention. Thirdly, an interestingly different perspective is reached on what it means to be grammatical: rather than being a destructive feature that bans or filters out bad structure, grammaticality takes on a role of constructive guidance that keeps languages to what are generally unambiguous canonical forms that moreover guarantee required dependencies. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, post-graduate and research students and all researchers in the formal analysis of the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of natural language. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The semantics of grammatical dependencies |
| ISBN: | 90-04-25318-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812349303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface.