Restriction and saturation /

With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic analysis of non-Indo-European languages. Their ultimate focus is on how the study of these Austronesian languages can illuminate the alternatives for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chung, Sandra
Otros Autores: Ladusaw, William A., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Colección:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 42.
Temas:
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Sémantique.
Syntaxe.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Semantics
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Modes of Composition
  • 1.1. Calculus of Saturation
  • 1.2. Predicate Restriction
  • 1.3. Syntactic versus Semantic Saturation
  • 1.4. Saturation at the Event Level
  • 1.5. Scope Constraints
  • 1.6. Property Theory of Indefinites
  • 1.7. Summary
  • Ch. 2 Indefinites in Maori
  • 2.1. Dash of Maori Grammar
  • 2.2. Syntax of He and Tetahi
  • 2.3. Semantic Similarity of He and Tetahi
  • 2.4. Some Semantic Contrasts
  • 2.5. Our Account
  • 2.6. Two Further Semantic Contrasts
  • 2.7. Dash of Pragmatics
  • 2.8. Conclusion
  • Ch. 3 Object Incorporation in Chamorro
  • 3.1. Dash of Chamorro Grammar
  • 3.2. Incorporation
  • 3.3. Incorporated Object Is Semantically Incomplete
  • 3.4. Extra Object
  • 3.5. Extra Object Is a Semantic Argument
  • 3.6. Our Account
  • 3.7. Restriction without Saturation
  • 3.8. Conclusion
  • App. A Syntax of Chamorro Incorporation
  • A.1. Previous Approaches
  • A.2. Some Preliminary Results
  • A.3. Some More Conclusive Results
  • A.4. Attachment Site of the Extra Object
  • App. B Maori and Chamorro.

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