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This book considers the semantic and syntactic nature of indexicals
- linguistic expressions, as in I, you, this, that, yesterday,
tomorrow, whose reference shifts from utterance to utterance.There
is a long-standing controversy as to whether the semantic reference
point is already present as syntactic material or whether it is
introduced post-syntactically by semantic rules of interpretation.
Alessandra Giorgi resolves this controversy through an empirically
grounded exploration of temporal indexicality, arguing that the
speaker's temporal location is specified in the syntactic
structure. She supports her analysis with theoretical and empirical
arguments based on data from English, Italian, Chinese, and
Romanian. Professor Giorgi addresses some difficult and
longstanding issues in the analysis of temporal phenomena -
including the Italian imperfect indicative, the properties of the
so-called future-in-the-past, and the properties of Free Indirect
Discourse - and shows that her framework can account elegantly for
all of them. Carefully argued, succinct, and clearly written her
book will appeal widely to semanticists in linguistics and
philosophy from graduate level upwards and to linguists interested
in the syntax-semantics interface.
Alessandra Giorgi and Giuseppe Longobardi's important 1991 study of
the argument structure of lexical projections, in particular of
noun phrases, makes substantial advances in this relatively
neglected area. Working within a Government and Binding framework,
the authors present strong arguments in favour of the existence of
empty categories, and evidence for the correct understanding of
word order parameters and of Chomsky's Projection Principle. In
particular, they elaborate and discuss a number of tests intended
to define under which lexical and syntactic conditions an empty
pronominal subject may or must occur in a Noun Phrase. The levels
of structural attachment of the arguments of a head Noun are
carefully established by supporting assumptions made in this domain
with independent evidence. As well as its theoretical advances,
this book provides a descriptive analysis of nominal structure in
Romance, and compares it with corresponding structure in Germanic
languages. It offers a valuable introduction to Italian phrase
structure.
Alessandra Giorgi and Giuseppe Longobardi's important 1991 study of
the argument structure of lexical projections, in particular of
noun phrases, makes substantial advances in this relatively
neglected area. Working within a Government and Binding framework,
the authors present strong arguments in favour of the existence of
empty categories, and evidence for the correct understanding of
word order parameters and of Chomsky's Projection Principle. In
particular, they elaborate and discuss a number of tests intended
to define under which lexical and syntactic conditions an empty
pronominal subject may or must occur in a Noun Phrase. The levels
of structural attachment of the arguments of a head Noun are
carefully established by supporting assumptions made in this domain
with independent evidence. As well as its theoretical advances,
this book provides a descriptive analysis of nominal structure in
Romance, and compares it with corresponding structure in Germanic
languages. It offers a valuable introduction to Italian phrase
structure.
This book examines the interactions between the morphosyntax and
the semantic interpretation of tense and aspectual forms in the
Germanic and Romance languages. These languages diverge not only in
their variety of tense and aspectual forms, but also in the
distribution and interpretation of given forms. Adopting Noam
Chomsky's minimalist framework, AG and FP attempt to provide
theoretical explanations for the observed patterns of form and
meaning which link the morphosyntactic properties of languages in
both universal and language-particular constraints on
interpretation.
The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.
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