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Exclamative clauses: At the syntax-semantics interface [PDF]

Language, 2001
A central issue in the theory of clause types is whether force is represented in the syntax. Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we examine this question focusing on a less well-studied clause type, exclamatives. We argue that there is no particular element in syntax responsible for introducing force.
Zanuttini, Raffaella, Portner, Paul
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Bare noun phrases in focus

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2010
The international cooperation research program between Brazil and France, CAPES/COFECUB, entitled “Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese: the Syntax-Semantics Interface” (2009), coordinated by Roberta Pires de Oliveira (UFSC/CNPq) and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (
Roberta Pires de Oliveira
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German particle verbs: Compositionality at the syntax-semantics interface

Journal of Language Modelling, 2018
Particle verbs represent a type of multi-word expression composed of a base verb and a particle. The meaning of the particle verb is often, but not always, derived from the meaning of the base verb, sometimes in quite complex ways.
Stefan Bott, Sabine Schulte im Walde
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La coordination en 3D

E-REA, 2013
This syntax/semantics interface study of English coordinators AND, OR, BUT and FOR investigates the particular relation coordinators have with discourse linearity.
Martine SEKALI
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Greek Topicalization: How do properties move?

Glossa, 2023
This paper argues that Greek topicalization is an A’-movement dependency which is headed by a property-denoting phrase (i.e., of type <e,t>), dislocated to a left peripheral topic position (spec,TopicP). Crucially, at the syntax-semantics interface,
Renos Georgiou
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Sets, heads and spreading in LFG

Journal of Language Modelling, 2018
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) uses abstract syntactic representation (f-structures) that tend to provide less hierarchical structure for certain constructions than those employed in other formal frameworks.
Avery D. Andrews
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Les exclamations cachées de la forme It’s astonishing the amount of anxiety in our society : l’enchâssement du syntagme nominal, entre rupture syntaxique et continuité sémantique

Anglophonia, 2023
This study questions the syntactic status of the NPs in exclamative constructions, such as It’s amazing the car he bought, that is to say in constructions in which the pronoun IT is followed by BE, by an emotive hyperbolic adjective such as amazing, and ...
Olivia Reneaud-Jensen
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The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019
This paper examines argument alternation constructions in the Bantu language, Kiwoso. The data demonstrates that alternation is constrained by selectional properties of a root and its combination with different functional heads, which is language ...
Mallya, Aurelia
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The Syntax Semantics Interface

, 2016
Introduction The basis of all considerations of the interface between syntax and semantics is that we can understand novel sentences provided we know the meaning of the words used in the sentence and that we can understand its syntactic structure.
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Énoncés capacitifs et constructions à sujet locatif : quel alignement syntaxe-sémantique ?

Anglophonia, 2023
The present paper focuses on two constructions – capacitive (e.g. The main dining room seats 65) and setting-subject (e.g. The reign of Charles II saw the end of the great Forest courts) constructions – which are comparable in more than one way.
Christelle Lacassain, Caroline Marty
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