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The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies.
Title:
The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies.
Author:
Butler, Alastair.
ISBN:
9789004253186
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Series:
Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; v.23

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Contents:
The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Representational distance -- 1.2 A static perspective -- 1.3 Accidental hiding or capture -- 1.4 Canonical representations -- 1.4.1 de Bruijn indices -- 1.4.2 Keeping names -- 1.4.3 End of scope -- 1.4.4 Summary -- 1.5 Sequence assignments -- 1.6 Semantics for canonical representations -- 1.7 Scope Control Theory -- 1.8 Scope, binding, accessibility and locality -- 1.8.1 Creating scopes -- 1.8.2 Rel -- 1.8.3 Binding support -- 1.8.4 Accessibility -- 1.8.5 Shifting binding name -- 1.8.6 Locality -- 1.8.7 Summary -- 1.9 Book overview -- 2 Argument Dependencies -- 2.1 Introducing bindings -- 2.2 Predicates -- 2.2.1 Predicates without embedding -- 2.2.2 Predicates with embedding -- 2.2.3 Summary -- 2.3 Constituent order, agreement and noun phrases -- 2.4 Noun phrase restrictions able to take embeddings -- 2.5 Prepositions -- 2.6 Summary -- 3 Clause Dependencies -- 3.1 Third person pronouns and reflexives -- 3.2 Seeming absences of complementarity -- 3.3 Possessive pronouns -- 3.4 Covaluation -- 3.5 Bare stem complements -- 3.6 Control -- 3.7 Raising -- 3.8 Relative clauses -- 3.9 Scoping possibilities -- 3.10 Summary -- 4 Unbounded Dependencies -- 4.1 Bridge verbs -- 4.2 Tough constructions -- 4.3 Stranding and pied-piping -- 4.4 The complex NP constraint -- 4.5 Crossover -- 4.6 Quantifier scope -- 4.7 Summary -- 5 Intervention and Binding into Relations -- 5.1 French interrogatives with a single WH argument -- 5.2 German constituent questions -- 5.3 French multiple constituent questions -- 5.4 English constituent questions -- 5.5 Binding into relations -- 5.6 Summary -- 6 Quantification in Japanese -- 6.1 Case marked noun phrases -- 6.2 Adding quantification -- 6.3 Constituent questions and intervention -- 6.4 Summary -- 7 Concluding Remarks.

Appendix SCT implementation -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
This book argues that constraints of interaction from semantic evaluations enforce grammatical dependency patterns that recur across natural languages and within constructions at intra and inter sentential levels as well as discourse levels.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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