Results 61 to 70 of about 6,161 (191)
Free choice indefinites and serial universality effects [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 The paper focuses on two contexts which license universal free choice items: future sentences and episodic subtrigged sentences, where the universal flavor of free choice items is dependent on temporal structure.
Mara Panaitescu
doaj
Interpretation as conflict resolution Interpretation as conflict resolution
Ilha do Desterro, 2008 Interpreting words, sentences and discourse is a process of resolving conflicts between the requirements of various general constraints on the correspondence between form and meaning and the interaction between lexicon and context.
Henriëtte de Swart, Joost Zwarts
doaj +2 more sources
A unified semantics for the Japanese Q-particle ka in indefinites, questions and disjunctions
Glossa, 2018 This paper provides a compositional semantics for the Japanese Q-particle ka that properly accounts for its use in questions, indefinites and disjunctions in a unified fashion.
Wataru Uegaki
doaj +2 more sources
, 2019 We argue that definite noun phrases give rise to uniqueness inferences characterized by a pattern we call definiteness projection. Definiteness projection says that the uniqueness inference of a definite projects out unless there is an indefinite ...
Mandelkern, Matthew, Rothschild, Daniel
core +1 more source
Direct and indirect aboutness topics [PDF]
, 2008 We propose a definition of aboutness topicality that not only encompasses individual denoting DPs, but also indefinites. We concentrate on the interpretative effects of marking indefinites as topics: they either receive widest scope in their clause, or ...
Barwise J. +16 more
core +1 more source
Grammatical properties of pronouns and their representation : an exposition [PDF]
, 2010 This volume brings together a cross-section of recent research on the grammar and representation of pronouns, centering around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing ...
Simon, Horst, Wiese, Heike
core
La contingence des faits linguistiques : réflexions sur la variation et le changement
Corela, 2003 This paper is a reflection on the role of contingent facts for the general understanding of language. Such facts are illustrated by the lacks of proportionality in the paradigm of French indefinites and the irregular correlations between the Null Subject
Pierre Larrivée
doaj +1 more source
Shifting perspectives in pictorial narratives [PDF]
, 2019 We propose an extension of Discourse Respresentation Theory (DRT) for analyzing pictorial narratives. We test drive our PicDRT framework by analyzing the way authors represent characters’ mental states and perception in comics.
Bimpikou, Sofia, Maier, Emar
core +4 more sources
, 2013 The philosophical work on definite and indefinite descriptions of the form “the N” and “a N” focuses on the logic of natural language. Definites and indefinites are sometimes treated as devices of reference and at other times associated with quantificational expressions.
openaire +2 more sources
Bare quantifier fronting as contrastive topicalization [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015 I argue that indefinites (in particular bare quantifiers such as ‘something’, ‘somebody’, etc.) which are neither existentially presupposed nor in the restriction of a quantifier over situations, can undergo topicalization in a number of Romance ...
Ion Giurgea
doaj