Control and Restructuring

Control and Restructuring
Author: Thomas Grano
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191008923

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This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the embedding clause (e.g. John wanted to leave). It draws on data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to investigate the relationship that control bears both to restructuring - the phenomenon whereby some apparently biclausal structures behave as though they constitute just one clause - and to the meanings of the embedding predicates that participate in these structures. Thomas Grano argues that restructuring is cross-linguistically pervasive and that, by virtue of its co-occurrence with some control predicates but not others, it serves as evidence for a basic division within the class of complement control structures. This division is connected to how the semantics of the control predicate interacts with general principles of clausal architecture and of the syntax-semantics interface. His findings have general implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.

Control and Restructuring at the Syntax-semantics Interface

Control and Restructuring at the Syntax-semantics Interface
Author: Thomas Angelo Grano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 9781267601711

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Landau (2000) distinguishes between P(artial) C(ontrol) and E(xhaustive) C(ontrol): PC predicates like hope admit a subset relation between controller and controllee (e.g., Kim hoped to gather at noon . [controllee = Kim and contextually salient others]); EC predicates like try do not (*Kim tried to gather at noon). This dissertation explores Cinque's (2006) suggestion that whereas PC instantiates 'true' (biclausal) control, EC predicates realize inflectional-layer functional heads that instantiate (monoclausal) raising structures. Chapter 1 shows that this view accurately predicts several correlates of the EC/PC split, including the distribution of finite complements (in English) and the crosslinguistic distribution of restructuring (monoclausality effects) and overt embedded subjects. Chapter 2 shows how a raising analysis of EC predicates like 'try' can be reconciled with their apparent 'control' properties by proposing that such predicates are semantically keyed to an individual that must be syntactically represented; this proposal furthermore sheds light on an old question in the restructuring literature: why a predicate's (in)ability to restructure is largely predictable from its semantics. The conclusion is that the restructuring status of EC predicates follows from an interaction between their lexical semantics and general constraints on clausal architecture. Chapter 3 shows that 'want' counterexemplifies the core generalizations and explains its exceptionality by appealing to independently motivated null structure that 'want' embeds under certain conditions. Finally, the core proposals also provide a suitable framework for understanding the relationship between control, restructuring, and tense (Chapter 4), and for understanding control in Mandarin Chinese (Chapter 5) and modern Greek (Chapter 6).

Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Author: Lukasz Jedrzejowski
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110520583

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The major aim of this volume is to investigate infinitival structures from a diachronic point of view and, simultaneously, to embed the diachronic findings into the ongoing theoretical discussion on non-finite clauses in general. All contributions subscribe to a dynamic approach to infinitival clauses by investigating their origin, development and loss in miscellaneous patterns and across different languages.

Control and Restructuring

Control and Restructuring
Author: Thomas Grano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198703929

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This book uses data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to develop a new theory of control structures that relates them to restructuring and the semantics of the embedding verb. The theory has implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.

Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Author: Lukasz Jedrzejowski
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110518597

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The major aim of this volume is to investigate infinitival structures from a diachronic point of view and, simultaneously, to embed the diachronic findings into the ongoing theoretical discussion on non-finite clauses in general. All contributions subscribe to a dynamic approach to infinitival clauses by investigating their origin, development and loss in miscellaneous patterns and across different languages.

Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Author: Jens Fleischhauer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110720299

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The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

Attitude Reports

Attitude Reports
Author: Thomas Grano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 110853015X

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Propositional attitude reports are sentences built around clause-embedding psychological verbs, like Kim believes that it's raining or Kim wants it to rain. These interact in many intricate ways with a wide variety of semantically relevant grammatical phenomena, and represent one of the most important topics at the interface of linguistics and philosophy, as their study provides insight into foundational questions about meaning. This book provides a bird's-eye overview of the grammar of propositional attitude reports, synthesizing the key facts, theories, and open problems in their analysis. Couched in the theoretical framework of generative grammar and compositional truth-conditional semantics, it places emphasis on points of intersection between propositional attitude reports and other important topics in semantic and syntactic theory. With discussion points, suggestions for further reading and a useful guide to symbols and conventions, it will be welcomed by students and researchers wishing to explore this fertile area of study.

Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface

Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface
Author: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2008-11-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027290334

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Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advance the development of the theory, but also contribute to the broader theoretical discussion. In particular, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena such as transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese, and an unusual kind of complex sentence in Wari’ (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not only illustrate the descriptive and explanatory power of the theory, but also present interesting challenges to other approaches. In addition, there are papers looking at the implications and applications of Role and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic research, parsing and automated text analysis.

Between Syntax and Semantics

Between Syntax and Semantics
Author: C.T. James Huang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135217580

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This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events.

Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 1

Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 1
Author: Tibor Kiss
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110377403

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This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.