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Russian Linguistics, 2008 В статье рассматривается изменение в падежном маркировании предикативных существительных со связочным глаголом быть в русском языке девятнадцатого и двадцатого веков. Известно, что такие существительные могут иметь форму как именительного, так и творительного падежа.
Krasovitsky, A +4 more
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Truth is dead; long live the truth. Commentary on Conjoining Meanings by Paul Pietroski
Mind &Language, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 251-265, April 2020., 2020 Pietroski successfully dismantles the idea of a formal semantic theory based on direct truth conditions and offers new and formally constrained alternatives. In this paper, I summarize the arguments but also provide a number of test cases to show that refusing to accept Pietroski's conclusions condemns the field to constantly restating and technically ...
Gillian Ramchand
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Noun classification from predicate-argument structures [PDF]
Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1990 A method of determining the similarity of nouns on the basis of a metric derived from the distribution of subject, verb and object in a large text corpus is described. The resulting quasi-semantic classification of nouns demonstrates the plausibility of the distributional hypothesis, and has potential application to a variety of tasks, including ...
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Linguistic Evidence against Predicativism
Philosophy Compass, Volume 11, Issue 10, Page 591-608, October 2016., 2016 Abstract The view that proper names are uniformly predicates (‘predicativism’) has recently gained prominence. I review linguistic evidence against it. Overall, the (cross‐) linguistic evidence suggests that proper names function as predicates when they appear in a grammatically predicative position and as referential expressions when they are ...
Wolfram Hinzen
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The noun/verb and predicate/argument structures [PDF]
Lingua, 2009 Previously, establishing a correspondence between the noun/verb and first order predicate logic's predicate/argument structures has been found problematic (Hurford, 2003a,b). The present paper argues that the predicate/argument system of natural language is more complex than that of first order predicate logic, with up to three levels of predicates and
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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COPULAR STRUCTURES AND ASYMMETRIC IDENTITY†
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 180-214, April 2025.Abstract We propose an analysis of copular structures of the type “DP is DP” based on the existence of a silent predicate of asymmetric identity. Our proposal is based on a cognitively grounded notion of identity as identification of one object on the basis of the properties of another.
Denis Delfitto, Gaetano Fiorin
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Nonverbal Clause Constructions
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 2, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT There are about a dozen well‐recognised types of nonverbal clause constructions, but the terminology by which these subtypes are known varies widely. This paper gives an overview of the major types and defines each term carefully, from the perspective of general syntax.
Martin Haspelmath
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract Previous studies uncover that vocabulary knowledge may be related to compound structure awareness (the awareness of relational structure embedded in compound words), and they both contribute to reading comprehension. Yet, limited studies have examined the dynamic relationship between vocabulary knowledge and compound structure awareness, or ...
Yahua Cheng +3 more
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Noun Preverbs in Complex Predicates
Nordlyd, 2008 In this paper, I propose a syntax-based analysis of Persian complex predicates (a predicate consisting of a so called preverb and a light verb). I adopt the framework of the verbal First Phase Syntax developed by Ramchand (2008). I use complex predicates with the light verb <em>zædæn</em> `hit' to illustrate how this approach sheds light on
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