Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 81
• 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... Lees meer

Semantics and the Lexicon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 49
• This book integrates the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lex... Lees meer

Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 79
• Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality - these are the main topics in the work of John R. Searle, one of the leading philosophical figures of the prese... Lees meer

Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

I Comorovski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 59
• Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple consti... Lees meer

Free Electron Lasers

S Martellucci, A N Chester

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 49
• The volume contains the proceedings of the 7th Course on Physics and Technology of Free Electron Lasers of the International School of Quantum Electro... Lees meer

Modality and Meaning

W G Lycan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 53
• Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of ... Lees meer

Fact Proposition Event

P L Peterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 66
• `Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguistic industry that began in the 1960s with Vendler's work on nominalization. Natural languages ... Lees meer

The German Perfect

R Musan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 78
• 1. OUTLINE German has the three main perfect constructions which are illustrated in (1. 1). 1 In each of these constructions, the verb appears in the ... Lees meer

Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 32
• For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend of May 31 throug... Lees meer

Purpose Clauses

C Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 47
• The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clauses, and they look and sound unr... Lees meer

Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 79
• Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality - these are the main topics in the work of John R. Searle, one of the leading philosophical figures of the prese... Lees meer

Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 81
• 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... Lees meer

Natural Language Parsing and Linguistic Theories

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 35
• presupposition fails, we now give a short introduction into Unification Grammar. Since all implementations discussed in this volume use PROLOG (with t... Lees meer

Frames and Concept Types

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 94
• This volume showcases the potential richness of frame representations. The presentation includes introductory articles on the application of frames to... Lees meer

Topics in Constraint-Based Grammar of Japanese

Koichi Hashida

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 68
• 1. Introduction; T. Gunji, K. Hasida. I: Recent Developments in JPSG. 2. Relative Clauses and Adnominal Clauses; H. Sirai, T. Gunji. 3. Measurement an... Lees meer

Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 97
• This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families... Lees meer

Topic and Focus

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 82
• During the 2001 Linguistic Summer Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara, a group of linguists gathered at a workshop to discuss the exp... Lees meer

The Parameter of Aspect

C S Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 43
• While working on this project I have received institutional support of several kinds, for which I am most grateful. I thank the Institute for Advanced... Lees meer

Existence: Semantics and Syntax

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 84
• 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. T... Lees meer

Ways of Scope Taking

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 65
• The present volume is as much a book co-authored by all the contributors as it is an edited collection of their papers. Most of the contributors have ... Lees meer

Locality in Wh Quantification

Veneeta Dayal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 62
• Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is derived from S-structure by local mov... Lees meer

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse

Nicholas Asher

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 50
• Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discou... Lees meer

Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 6
• I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc., differ in their synta... Lees meer

Generalized Quantifiers

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 31
• Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con- sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainly carried out by mathematician... Lees meer