Introduction by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Zhaohui Luo -- Part I. Foundational Issues -- Context-Passing and Underspecification in Dependent Type Semantics by Daisuke Bekki and Koji Mineshima -- On the Interpretation of Common Nouns: Types v.s. Predicates by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Zhaohui Luo -- Adapting Type Theory with Records for Natural Language Semantics by Robin Cooper -- Gene…
This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research. More broadly, the content is linked to the realities of living speech through a connection (via the concept of diacriticity) with the Merleau-Pontian phenomenology, and beyond the formal determinations of a semiolinguistic…
Chapter 1. IndoWordNet Pushpak Bhattacharyya -- Chapter 2. Insights on Hindi WordNet Coming from the IndoWordNet Laxmi Kashyap, Salil Rajeev Joshi and Pushpak Bhattacharyya -- Chapter 3. Defining Language Specific Synset (LSS) in IndoWorNet: Some Theoretical and Practical Issues Niladri Sekhar Dash -- Chapter 4. Problems in Translating Hindi Synsets into the Bangla WordNet Niladri Sekhar Dash -…
Introduction -- Part I: Linguistic Models -- A Feature-based Account of Weak Islands By Christopher Laenzlinger & Gabriela Soare -- On the Syntax and Pragmatics of some Clause-peripheral Positions By Luigi Rizzi & Adriana Belletti -- Two Challenges for ‘neo-saussurean’ Approaches to Morphosyntax By Frederick Newmeyer -- Some Notes on Floating Quantifiers By Genoveva Puskas -- A Pragmatic an…