I. Information Structure and Contrastiveness -- 1. Contrastive Topic, Contrastive Focus, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures -- 2. Partition Semantics and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic -- 3. Deriving the Properties of Structural Focus -- 4. Topic, Focus, and Exhaustive Interpretation -- 5. The Interpretation of a “contrast-marking” Particle -- 6. Scalar Implicatures, Presuppositions, and…
1 Introduction -- 2 Mechanism of Search and Float for Internal Merge -- 2.1 Minimal Search -- 2.2 Float -- 3 Search and Float for Covert Movement -- 3.1 Minimal Search and Float for Quantifier Raising -- 3.2 Covert Wh-Movement -- 3.3 Covert Oblique Movement of Wh-Phrases -- 4 Case Study I: Plurals and Reciprocals -- 4.1 The Cumulative Reading and Clause-Boundedness -- 4.2 The Cumulative Reading…
Roots: Where Syntax, Morphology, and the Lexicon Meet -- The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory? -- The Contents of the Root: Multiple Contextualized Meaning in Hebrew -- The Morphological Consequences of MCM: An Intermediate Summary -- Roots Across Patterns in Hebrew -- A Theory of Hebrew Verbal Morpho-Syntax -- Roots in Word-Formation: The Root Hypothesis Revisited.Th…
Issues and Interfaces in the Study of Aspect -- Aspect and the Internal Structure of the Clause -- Topic or Aspect -- Some Notes on the Syntax of Quantity -- Articulated vPS and the Computation of Aspectual Classes -- Flavors of v -- Semi-Copulas -- PP, FP and the Telic/Atelic Distinction in Norwegian Motion Constructions -- Aspect, Tense and Discourse -- The Spatio-Temporal Path and Aspectual …
Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Language Admixture and Replacement in Northwestern China -- 2. Historical, Religious and Genetic Contexts of Tangwang -- 3. The Tangwang Language Phonology -- 4. Tangwang Morphology -- 5. Tangwang Syntax -- 6. About “mixed language” -- Annex -- Story in Tangwang -- Index.This book studies the Tangwang language, providing the first compr…
Chapter 1: Alle Wege Führen zum Text -- Chapter 2: The Procedural Approach to Texts -- Chapter 3: Case Study of the Procedural Approach to a Text.The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of text linguistics from a broader perspective than usual, offering a complete referen…
Chapter 1. A Life in Linguistics Gautam Sengupta, Shruti Sircar, Madhavi Gayathri Raman & Rahul Balusu -- Chapter 2. A Note on Huave morpheme ordering: Local dislocation or (generalized) U20? Hilda Koopman -- Chaper 3. Tense and the Realization of the Feminine Plural in Hindi-Urdu Rajesh Bhatt & Stefan Keine. -Chapter 4. English One and Ones as Complex Determiners Richard S. Kayne -- Chapter 5…
Introduction by Edward L. Keenan, D. Paperno -- The Quantifier Questionnaire by Edward L. Keenan -- Quantification in American Sign Language by Natasha Abner, Ronnie Wilbur -- Quantification in Cantonese by Peppina Lee -- Chicasaw Quantifiers by Pamela Munro -- Quantifiers in Dan-Gwɛɛtaa (South Mande) by Valentin Vydrine -- Quantification in Gitksan by Katie Bicevskis, Henry Davis, Lisa Matth…
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…
1 Approaches to English Grammar -- 2 Clause combination in English -- 3 Gradience in English Clause Combination -- 4 The English Clause Hierarchy over History -- 5 Historical Development according to Genre and Dialect -- 6 Discourse Coherence and Clause Combination -- 7 Isomorphic Development and English Clause Combination -- 8 General Discussion and Evaluation of the Research. .This book exami…