Author: Georgia M. Green
Publisher:
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780783737089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ruth M. Kempson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1977-09-15
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521292092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to the central topics of linguistic semantics and the philosophy of language, assuming no special knowledge of philosophy or logic.
Author: Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-12-20
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1139431153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. There has been growing interest in exploring systemicities in semantic change from a number of perspectives including theories of metaphor, pragmatic inferencing, and grammaticalization. Like earlier studies, these have for the most part been based on data taken out of context. This book is a detailed examination of semantic change from the perspective of historical pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on extensive corpus data from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.
Author: Georgia M. Green
Publisher:
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780521097437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-01-18
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781402038495
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. The reader will benefit from a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks, among which, most notably, HPSG. The book is for researchers working in the fields of computational linguistics, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.
Author: Dominique Sportiche
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-09-30
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1118470478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offersbeginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction toour current understanding of the rules and principles that governthe syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical features such as‘practice’ boxes and sidebars, designed to facilitateunderstanding of both the ‘hows’ and the‘whys’ of sentence structure Guides readers through syntactic and morphological structuresin a progressive manner Takes the mystery out of one of the most crucial aspects of theworkings of language – the principles and processes behindthe structure of sentences Ideal for students with minimal knowledge of current syntacticresearch, it progresses in theoretical difficulty from basic ideasand theories to more complex and advanced, up to date concepts insyntactic theory
Author: Jens Fleischhauer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 3110720299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.