Grammatical semantics : evidence for structure in meaning

edited by Tara Mohanan & Lionel Wee

The exploration of meaning in human languages has traditionally focused on the relation between linguistic forms and what they refer to in the world. Most approaches to formal semantics have been driven by this preoccupation. Recent years, however, have seen the growth of a parallel preoccupation, that of exploring the relation between patterns of meaning and grammatical structure, leading to the search for a restricted subset of meanings that interact with the grammatical system of human languages. As part of this research program of 'grammatical semantics', this collection of papers addresses questions of what the atomic elements of grammatically relevant meanings should be, how they must be represented, and how these representations interact with representations of other dimensions of language structure. The papers converge on the idea that morpheme-internal and phrasal meanings are represented along a single dimension, distinct from syntactic representations. Among the phenomena described are alternations of aspectual classes of predicates, event modification and event elaboration, and presuppositions, and the languages include English, Malay, Malayalam, and Mandarin.

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The exploration of meaning in human languages has traditionally focused on the relation between linguistic forms and what they refer to in the world. Most approaches to formal semantics have been driven by this preoccupation. Recent years, however, have seen the growth of a parallel preoccupation, that of exploring the relation between patterns of meaning and grammatical structure, leading to the search for a restricted subset of meanings that interact with the grammatical system of human languages. As part of this research program of 'grammatical semantics', this collection of papers addresses questions of what the atomic elements of grammatically relevant meanings should be, how they must be represented, and how these representations interact with representations of other dimensions of language structure. The papers converge on the idea that morpheme-internal and phrasal meanings are represented along a single dimension, distinct from syntactic representations. Among the phenomena described are alternations of aspectual classes of predicates, event modification and event elaboration, and presuppositions, and the languages include English, Malay, Malayalam, and Mandarin.

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[目次]

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. On representations in grammatical semantics
  • 3. On the representation of Event structure
  • 4. Comments on Alsina
  • 5. Explaining grammatical Polysemy
  • 6. Representing the semantics of BA in Mandarin
  • 7. Comments on Wong
  • 8. Representing presuppositions
  • 9. Comments on K. P. Mohanan and T. Mohanan.

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[目次]

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. On representations in grammatical semantics
  • 3. On the representation of Event structure
  • 4. Comments on Alsina
  • 5. Explaining grammatical Polysemy
  • 6. Representing the semantics of BA in Mandarin
  • 7. Comments on Wong
  • 8. Representing presuppositions
  • 9. Comments on K. P. Mohanan and T. Mohanan.

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書名 Grammatical semantics : evidence for structure in meaning
著作者等 Mohanan, Tara
Stanford University. Center for the Study of Language and Information
Wee, Lionel
出版元 CSLI;National University of Singapore
刊行年月 c1999
ページ数 ix, 285 p.
大きさ 23-24 cm
ISBN 1575862026
1575862018
NCID BA43415216
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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