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The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics

3-October-20229-September-2016

The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics PDF

Formal semantics – the scientific study of meaning in natural language – is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of the variety of formal/logical approaches to linguistic meaning and an overview of the major areas of research within current semantic theory, broadly conceived. The Handbook also explores the interfaces between semantics and neighbouring disciplines, including research in cognition and computation. This work will be essential reading for students and researchers working in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science.

Case: Its Principles and its Parameters

3-October-20229-September-2016

Case: Its Principles and its Parameters PDF

In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types – accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive – this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European languages are considered in depth. While affirming that case can be assigned to noun phrases by function words under agreement, the theory also develops in detail a second mode of case assignment: so-called dependent case. Suitable for academic researchers and students, the book employs formal-generative concepts yet remains clear and accessible for a general linguistics readership.

Subject Link L5: Workbook and Answer Keys

9-August-20209-September-2016

Subject Link L5: Workbook and Answer Keys Subject Link is a nine-level curriculum integration studying program for high-beginner to high-intermediate college students. The collection’ theme-based curriculum helps college students to enhance their language talents and additionally purchase new data from the attention-grabbing content material introduced in every of the passages. With a number of classes …

Subject Link L5 (Teacher’s Guide • Project Worksheets • Tests)

9-August-20209-September-2016

Subject Link L5 (Teacher’s Guide • Project Worksheets • Tests) Subject Link is a nine-level curriculum integration reading program for high-beginner to high-intermediate students. The series’ theme-based curriculum helps students to improve their language abilities and also acquire new knowledge from the interesting content presented in each of the passages. With multiple lessons for each …

The Syntactic Process

3-October-20229-September-2016

The Syntactic Process PDF

In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without constructing any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to construct a principled theory of natural grammar that is directly compatible with both explanatory linguistic accounts of a number of problematic syntactic phenomena and a straightforward computational account of the way sentences are mapped onto representations of meaning. The radical nature of Steedman’s proposal stems from his claim that much of the apparent complexity of syntax, prosody, and processing follows from the lexical specification of the grammar and from the involvement of a small number of universal rule-types for combining predicates and arguments. These syntactic operations are related to the combinators of Combinatory Logic, engendering a much freer definition of derivational constituency than is traditionally assumed. This property allows Combinatory Categorial Grammar to capture elegantly the structure and interpretation of coordination and intonation contour in English as well as some well-known interactions between word order, coordination, and relativization across a number of other languages. It also allows more direct compatibility with incremental semantic interpretation during parsing.