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Concealed Questions
Author | : Ilaria Frana |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199670925 |
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This book presents a novel analysis of concealed-question constructions, reports of a mental attitude in which part of a sentence looks like a nominal complement (e.g. Eve's phone number in Adam knows Eve's phone number), but is interpreted as an indirect question (Adam knows what Eve's phone number is). In this book, Ilaria Frana adopts a theory according to which noun phrases with concealed question meanings are analysed as individual concepts. The traditional individual concept theory is modified and applied to the phenomena discussed in the recent literature and some new problematic data. The end result is a fully compositional account of a wide range of concealed-question constructions. The exploration of concealed questions offered in the book provides insights into both issues in semantic theory, such as the nature of quantification in natural languages and the use of type shifter in the grammar, and issues surrounding the syntax-semantics interface, such as the interpretation of copy traces and the effects on semantic interpretation of different syntactic analyses of relative clauses.
Concealed Questions
Author | : Ilaria Frana |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-02-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780191650116 |
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This book presents a novel analysis of concealed-question constructions, reports of a mental attitude in which part of a sentence looks like a nominal complement (e.g. Eve's phone number in Adam knows Eve's phone number), but is interpreted as an indirect question (Adam knows what Eve's phone number is). Such constructions are puzzling in that they raise the question of how their meaning derives from their constituent parts. In particular, how a nominal complement (Eve's phone number), normally used to refer to an entity (e.g. Eve's actual phone number in Adam dialled Eve's phone number) ends up with a question-like meaning. In this book, Ilaria Frana adopts a theory according to which noun phrases with concealed question meanings are analysed as individual concepts. The traditional individual concept theory is modified and applied to the phenomena discussed in the recent literature and some new problematic data. The end result is a fully compositional account of a wide range of concealed-question constructions. The exploration of concealed questions offered in the book provides insights into both issues in semantic theory, such as the nature of quantification in natural languages and the use of type shifter in the grammar, and issues surrounding the syntax-semantics interface, such as the interpretation of copy traces and the effects on semantic interpretation of different syntactic analyses of relative clauses. The book will interest scholars and graduate students in linguistics, especially those interested in semantics and the syntax-semantics interface, as well as philosophers of language working on the topic of intensionality.
Nouns and the Morphosyntax Semantics Interface
Author | : Laure Gardelle |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783031445613 |
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Information Structure and Agreement
Author | : Victoria Camacho-Taboada,Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández,Javier Martín-González,Mariano Reyes-Tejedor |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027273024 |
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This collection consists of thirteen contributions focusing on the latest trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the most current developments of Minimalism, Cartography, and Optimality. Some chapters focus on the syntax of information structure in relation with the position occupied by different constituents in the CP domain and their interpretation such as the distinction between contrastive and corrective focus; the inclusion of given information in focus; the interplay of information structure and binding; the relative position of complementisers; and discourse-based constituents in the left periphery. Information structure is also analysed with regards to prominence phenomena at word level. Other chapters deal with the notion of agreement and its role in the syntax of specific constructions such as applicatives, correlatives, or different types of CP like relatives or embedded interrogatives. This selection of papers was originally presented at the 21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar, held at the University of Seville in April 2011.
Aristotle s De Interpretatione
Author | : C. W. A. Whitaker |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1996-11-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191519048 |
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Aristotle's treatise De Interpretatione is one of his central works; it continues to be the focus of much attention and debate. C. W. A. Whitaker presents the first systematic study of this work, and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Aristotle's system, basing this view upon a detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis. By treating the work systematically, rather than concentrating on certain selected passages, Dr Whitaker is able to show that, contrary to traditional opinion, it forms an organized and coherent whole. He argues that the De Interpretatione is intended to provide the underpinning for dialectic, the system of argument by question and answer set out in Aristotle's Topics ; and he rejects the traditional view that the De Interpretatione concerns the assertion and is oriented towards the formal logic of the Prior Analytics. In doing so, he sheds valuable new light on some of Aristotle's most famous texts.
Current English Linguistics in Japan
Author | : Heizo Nakajima |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3110117819 |
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Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech
Author | : Reinaldo Elugardo,Robert J. Stainton |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2005-08-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781402023019 |
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The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? As will emerge below, each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals speci?cally with nonsentential speech. Within the ?rst main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issueofwhethernonsententialspeechfallswithinthescopeofellipsisornot;within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. I. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF ELLIPSIS A. General Issue: How Many Natural Kinds? There are many things to which the label ‘ellipsis’ can be readily applied. But it’s quite unclear whether all of them belong in a single natural kind. To explain, consider a view, assumed in Stainton (2000), Stainton (2004a), and elsewhere. It is the view that there are fundamentally (at least) three very different things that readily get called ‘ellipsis’, each belonging to a distinct kind. First, there is the very broad phenomenon of a speaker omitting information which the hearer is expected to make use of in interpreting an utterance. Included therein, possibly as a special case, is the use of an abbreviated form of speech, when one could have used a more explicit expression. (See Neale (2000) and Sellars (1954) for more on this idea.
Traffic World s Questions and Answers Book
Author | : Traffic Service Corporation |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015023117651 |
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