A Syntax of Substance
Author: David Adger
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0262518309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new approach to grammar and meaning of relational nouns is presented along with its empirical consequences.
Author: David Adger
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0262518309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new approach to grammar and meaning of relational nouns is presented along with its empirical consequences.
Author: John Mathieson Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0199608318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Domain of Syntax explores the consequences for syntax of assuming that language is grounded in cognition and perception. He considers whether this permits a lexicalist approach to syntax that would allow it to dispense not only with structural mutations but with universal grammar itself.
Author: John Mathieson Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0199608334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Phonology-Syntax Analogies looks at the degree to which analogies between syntax and phonology result from their being representational subsystems within the overall system of language, at why they sometimes break down, and at how far semantic and phonetic properties limit such analogies.
Author: Jaan Puhvel
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2021-01-08
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0520361938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Author: Elena Lombardi
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0802090702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In medieval culture, the consideration of language is deeply connected to other aspects of the system of knowledge. One interesting connection takes place between theories of language and theories of larger concepts such as love and desire. The Syntax of Desire is an interdisciplinary examination of the interlacing operation of syntax and desire in three medieval 'grammars:' theological, linguistic, and poetic. Exploring three representative aspects of medieval language theory, Elena Lombardi uncovers the ways in which syntax and desire were interrelated in the Middle Ages. She suggests that, in Augustine's theology, the creative act of God in the universe emerges as a syntax that the human individual must interpret by means of desire; in the linguistic theory of the Modistae, she sees the syntax of language as parallel to a syntax of reality, one organized by the desiring interplay of matter and form; in Dante's poetry, she argues that the language of the fallen human is bound together by the syntax of poetry, an act of desire that restores language to its primitive innocence. In addition to detailed analyses of medieval texts, The Syntax of Desire examines some aspects of the same relationship in light of contemporary linguistics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis.
Author: William Lennie
Publisher: Toontoc [i.e. Toronto?] : J. Lovell
Published: 1862
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael V. Wedin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-06-15
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780191519451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. The two main sources for these views are the Categories and the central books of the Metaphysics, particularly book Zeta. In the early theory of the Categories the basic entities of the world are concrete objects such as Socrates: Aristotle calls them 'primary substances'. But the later theory awards this title to the forms of concrete objects. Michael Wedin proposes a compatibilist solution to this long-standing puzzle, arguing that Aristotle is engaged in quite different projects in the two works. The theory of Metaphysics Zeta is meant to explain central features of the standing doctrine of the Categories, and so presupposes the essential truth of the early theory. The Categories offers a theory of underlying ontological configurations, while book Zeta gives form the status of primary substance because it is primarily the form of a concrete object that explains its nature, and this form is the substance of the object. So when the late theory identifies primary substance with form, it appeals to an explanatory primacy that is quite distinct from the ontological primacy that dominates the Categories. Wedin's new interpretation thus allows us to see the two treatises as complementing each other: they are parts of a unified history of substance.
Author: S.-Y. Kuroda
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9401127891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1. Two main themes connect the papers on Japanese syntax collected in this volume: movements of noun phrases and case marking, although each in turn relates to other issues in syntax and semantics. These two themes can be traced back to my 1965 MIT dissertation. The problem of the so-called topic marker wa is a perennial problem in Japanese linguistics. I devoted Chapter 2 of my dissertation to the problem of wa. My primary concern there was transformational genera tive syntax. I was interested in the light that Chomsky'S new theory could shed on the understanding of Japanese sentence structure. I generalized the problem of deriving wa-phrases to the problem of deriving phrases accompanied by the quantifier-like particles mo, demo, sae as well as wa. These particles, mo, demo and sae may roughly be equated with a/so, or something like it and even, respectively, and are grouped together with wa under the name of huku-zyosi as a subcategory of particles in Kokugogaku, Japanese scholarship on Japanese grammar. This taxonomy itself is a straightforward consequence of distributional analysis, and does not require the mechanisms of transformational grammar. My transformational analysis of wa, and by extension, that of the other huku zyosi, consisted in formally relating the function of the post-nominal use of wa to that of the post-predicative use by means of what I called an attachment transformation.
Author: Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0195382897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With philosophical and linguistic semanticists on the one side and cognitive and developmental psychologists on the other, questions in the semantic and logical theories of generic statements that employ mass terms by looking to the cognitive abilities of speakers and of child language-learners are discussed.