Télécharger le livre :  A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics
This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field. The chapters make the target articles more accessible by providing background, modernizing the...

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Parution : 2022-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns and Count Nouns
Iceberg semantics is a new framework of Boolean semantics for mass nouns and count nouns in which the interpretation of a noun phrase rises up from a generating base and floats with its base on its Boolean part set, like an iceberg. The framework is shown to preserve...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Semantics of Opinion
This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "future-directed opining verbs", a novel class whose members are used to describe subjects' externally attested opinions toward future possibilities. Including verbs like recommend, promise, and permit, the class can...

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Parution : 2019-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice
This volume presents eight papers and a draft monograph by T. Price Caldwell on topics in linguistics, semiotics and philosophy of language. From the beginning of his professional career onwards, Caldwell wrote short fiction and poetry, and he taught English...

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Parution : 2018-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a...

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Parution : 2017-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II
This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles. The current volume pays special attention to underrepresented languages of different status...

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Parution : 2017-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics
This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics. The volume fills a 20 year gap from the last published book on the issue and aspires to bring researchers closer to cutting edge alternatives...

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Parution : 2017-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives
This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and...

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Parution : 2016-02-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics
This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian...

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Parution : 2014-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Frames and Concept Types
This volume showcases the potential richness of frame representations. The presentation includes introductory articles on the application of frames to linguistics and philosophy of science, offering readers the tools to conduct the interdisciplinary investigation of...

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Parution : 2013-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates
This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying...

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Parution : 2013-02-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages
This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been...

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Parution : 2012-11-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Dynamic Semantics
The integrated theory of dynamic interpretation set out here will be a surprise to advanced researchers in linguistics. It combines classical formal semantics and modern dynamic semantics without altering the fundamental paradigm. At the book’s core lies a pragmatically...

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Parution : 2012-07-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language
Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book...

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Parution : 2012-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Interpreting Imperatives
Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or the concept of...

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Parution : 2011-10-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Interpreted Languages and Compositionality
This book argues that languages are composed of sets of ‘signs’, rather than ‘strings’.This notion, first posited by de Saussure in the early 20th century, has for decades been neglected by linguists, particularly following Chomsky’s heavy critiques of the 1950s. Yet...

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Parution : 2011-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Text, Time, and Context
Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and a pioneering woman in generative linguistics. This selection of papers focuses on the research into tense, aspect, and discourse that Smith completed while Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas...

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Parution : 2009-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values
Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences...

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Parution : 2008-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Computing Meaning
This book provides an in-depth view of the current issues, problems and approaches in the computation of meaning as expressed in language. Aimed at linguists, computer scientists, and logicians with an interest in the computation of meaning, this book focuses on two...

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Parution : 2007-10-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Existence: Semantics and Syntax
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...

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Parution : 2007-09-04
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