Existential sentences crosslinguistically: Variations in form and meaning

L McNally - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Though the term “existential sentence” goes back at least as far as, p. 155) and is used in
descriptions of many languages to refer to a designated construction, it is difficult to identify …

[图书][B] English verb classes and alternations: A preliminary investigation

B Levin - 1993 - books.google.com
In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to
shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning …

Reference to kinds across language

G Chierchia - Natural language semantics, 1998 - Springer
This paper is devoted to the study of bare nominal arguments (ie, determinerless NPs
occurring in canonical argumental positions) from a crosslinguistic point of view. It is …

Polarity sensitivity as (non) veridical dependency

A Giannakidou - 1998 - torrossa.com
This book presents the theory of polarity sensitivity I have been developing in a number of
publications (1994, 1995, 1996) culminating in my dissertation" The Landscape of Polarity …

[图书][B] Topics in the syntax and semantics of coordinate structures

AB Munn - 1993 - search.proquest.com
This thesis is concerned with developing a syntax for coordinate structures which is
compatible with both the syntactic behaviour of conjunction structures and with their …

[图书][B] Restriction and saturation

S Chung, WA Ladusaw - 2003 - books.google.com
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 …

Copular clauses

L Mikkelsen - Copular Clauses, 2005 - torrossa.com
Copular Clauses Page 1 Copular Clauses Specification, predication and equation Line
Mikkelsen John Benjamins Publishing Company Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today 85 …

[图书][B] Layers in the determiner phrase

R Zamparelli - 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Layers in the Determiner Phrase Page 1 Page 2 OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS IN
LINGUISTICS edited by LAURENCE HORN Yale UNIVERSITY Page 3 This page intentionally …

Negative... concord?

A Giannakidou - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2000 - Springer
The main claim of this paper is that a general theory of negative concord (NC) should allow
for the possibility of NC involving scoping of a universal quantifier above negation. I propose …

[图书][B] A syntax of substance

D Adger - 2012 - books.google.com
A new approach to grammar and meaning of relational nouns is presented along with its
empirical consequences. In A Syntax of Substance, David Adger proposes a new approach …