14 search hits
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Two types of Cahuilla kinship expressions : inherent and establishing
(1980)
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Hansjakob Seiler
- In my Cahuilla Grammar (Seiler 1977:276-282) and in a subsequent paper (Seiler 1980:229-236) I have drawn attention to the fact that many kin terms in this language, especially those that have a corresponding reciprocal term in the ascending direction – like niece or nephew in relation to aunt – occur in two expressions of quite different morphological shape. The following remarks are intended to furnish an explanation of this apparent duplicity.
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Report on 34th conference of the "Societas Linguistica Europea" : language study in Europe at the turn of the millennium. Towards the integration of cognitive, historical und cultural approaches to language, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, august 28-31, 2001.
(2002)
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Brigitte Nerlich
Grzegorz A. Kleparski
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Miguel Casas-Gómez: Las relaciones léxicas. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, Bd. 299, Tübingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999, pp. 241, ISBN: 3-484-52299-3, ISSN: 0084-5396.
(2001)
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Pedro J. Chamizo Dominguez
Brigitte Nerlich
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Studia anglica Resoviensia, ed. by Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Zeszyty naukowe WSP w Rzeszowie, Seria filologiczna, zeszyt 38, Rzeszów, Wydawn. Wyzsżej szkoły pedagogicznej w Rzeszowie, 2000, pp. 132, ISSN 0867-0757.
(2001)
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Konrad Klimkowski
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Factoring Predicate Argument and Scope Semantics : underspecified Semantics with LTAG
(2003)
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Laura Kallmeyer
Aravind K. Joshi
- In this paper we propose a compositional semantics for lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar (LTAG). Tree-local multicomponent derivations allow separation of the semantic contribution of a lexical item into one component contributing to the predicate argument structure and a second component contributing to scope semantics. Based on this idea a syntax-semantics interface is presented where the compositional semantics depends only on the derivation structure. It is shown that the derivation structure (and indirectly the locality of derivations) allows an appropriate amount of underspecification. This is illustrated by investigating underspecified representations for quantifier scope ambiguities and related phenomena such as adjunct scope and island constraints.
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Semantic construction in feature-based TAG
(2003)
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Claire Gardent
Laura Kallmeyer
- We propose a semantic construction method for Feature-Based Tree Adjoining Grammar which is based on the derived tree, compare it with related proposals and briefly discuss some implementation possibilities.
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Semantic form as interface
(2007)
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Manfred Bierwisch
- The term interface had a remarkable career over the past several decades, motivated largely by its use in computer science. Although the concept of a "surface common to two areas" (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 1980) is intuitively clear enough, the range of its application is not very sharp and well defined, a "common surface" is open to a wide range of interpretations.
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Thematic roles – universal, particular, and idiosyncratic aspects
(2006)
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Manfred Bierwisch
- Thematic Roles (or Theta-Roles) are theoretical constructs that account for a variety of well known empirical facts, which are more or less clearly delimited. In other words, Theta-Roles are not directly observable, but they do have empirical content that is open to empirical observation. The objective of the present paper is to sketch the nature and content of Theta-Roles, distinguishing their universal foundation as part of the language faculty, their language particular realization, which depends on the conditions of individual languages, and idiosyncratic properties, determined by specific information of individual lexical items.
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BECOME and its presuppositions
(2004)
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Manfred Bierwisch
- In hindsight, the debate about presupposition following Frege’s discovery that the referential function of names and definite descriptions depended on the fulfillment of an existence and a uniqueness condition was curiously limited for a very long time. On the one hand, it was only in the 1960s that linguists began to take an interest and showed that presupposition was an allpervasive phenomenon far beyond this philosophers’ pet definite descriptions. And on the other hand, and this is our real concern, it is now only too obvious that the uniqueness condition is too restrictive to be applicable to the general case. An utterance of “The cat is on the mat” should not imply that there is only one cat and one mat in the whole world. The obvious move is to limit the uniqueness condition to some notion of utterance context.
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Are hedgehogs like pigs, or tortoises like toads? : language-specific effects of compound structure on conceptualisation
(2003)
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Heike Wiese
- How far can language-specific structures influence conceptualisation? After a period of time where the discussion of any ‘Whorfian’ effects tended to be considered of little scientific merit, the recent decade has seen a renewed interest in this question. In particular, studies have aimed to tease apart ‘thinking for speaking’ from general cognition (cf. Slobin 1996, Stutterheim & Nüse 2002) and have shown that language-specific differences can often be observed in verbalisation as well as in the preverbal preparation phase of speech production, rather than in non-linguistic tasks.
