Linguistic meaning meets linguistic form

Linguistic meaning meets linguistic form / Patrick Duffley.

This book steers a middle course between the logical and cognitive approaches to semantics. Patrick Duffley argues for a radical revision of the semantics/pragmatics interface, proposing that the dividing line be drawn between content that is linguistically encoded and content that is not encoded bu...

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Main Author: Duffley, Patrick J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Semantics.
Semantics > Case studies.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Language and logic.
Psycholinguistics.
semantics.
psycholinguistics.
Language and logic
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Chapter 1: Introductory remarks on the question of the autonomy of syntax
  • Chapter 2: The truth-conditional approach to meaning
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Explanation of basic facts about meaning according to the truth-conditional approach
  • 2.3 The truth-conditional approach to sentences
  • 2.4 The truth-conditional approach to assembling meanings
  • 2.5 Truth-conditional modeling of predicates as sets
  • 2.6 Truth-conditional semantics' view of modifiers
  • 2.7 Extensions and truth-conditions hit a wall
  • 2.8 The interface between semantics and pragmatics
  • Chapter 3: Sign-based semantics: meaning as linguistically-signified cognitive content
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The preposition for and the challenge of polysemy
  • 3.3 The 'illogical' common-sense logic of natural language
  • 3.3.1 Introduction
  • 3.3.2 Any
  • 3.3.3 Most
  • 3.3.4 The conjunction or
  • 3.3.5 Numerals
  • 3.4 Aspectual verbs
  • 3.4.1 Survey of previous analyses
  • 3.4.2 Problems posed by this type of analysis
  • 3.4.3 A language-specific approach to aspectual verbs in english
  • 3.4.3.1 The parameters in play
  • 3.4.3.2 Application of the parameters of function and semantic content of verb and complement to each aspectual verb
  • Verbs denoting the beginning of an event
  • Verbs referring to the middle of an event
  • Verbs referring to the end of the event
  • 3.4.4 Conclusions regarding aspectual verbs
  • 3.5 Verbs of positive and negative recall
  • 3.6 Causative verbs
  • 3.7 Control and raising in adjective + to-infinitive constructions
  • 3.7.1 Subject=subject constructions
  • 3.7.2 Subject=object constructions
  • 3.7.3 Conclusions on control and raising in adjective + to-infinitive constructions
  • 3.8 WH- words and the infinitive in English
  • 3.8.1 Distribution
  • 3.8.2 WH- words + infinitive in independent clauses
  • 3.8.2.1 How and Why
  • 3.8.2.2 Other WH- words
  • 3.8.2.3 WH- word + to-infinitive questions
  • 3.8.2.4 WH- word + infinitive subordinate clauses: syntax explained by semantics
  • 3.8.2.5 Accounting for the standard distribution
  • 3.8.3 Conclusion on WH- words + infinitive
  • 3.9 Dare and Need
  • 3.9.1 Introduction
  • 3.9.2 Need and dare as negative polarity items
  • 3.9.3 Explanation of the morphosyntactically modal behavior of dare and need as NPIs
  • 3.10 Full-verb inversion and existential-there constructions
  • 3.10.1 Introduction
  • 3.10.2 Full-verb inversion as a ground-before-figure construction
  • 3.10.3 Two semiological characteristics of full-verb inversion structures not discussed by Chen
  • 3.10.3.1 Lack of subject-verb agreement
  • 3.10.3.2 Pronominal forms found in postverbal position
  • 3.10.4 Parallels between full-verb inversion and existential-there constructions

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