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In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal
pragmatics has grown tremendously showing that core aspects of
language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These
principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly
intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book,
some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam
Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature
of linguistic meaning and pave the way for the further development
of formal semantics and formal pragmatics. Each chapter
investigates various dimensions in which the logical nature of
human language manifests itself within a language and/or across
languages. Phenomena like bare plurals, free choice items, scalar
implicatures, intervention effects, and logical operators are
investigated in depth and at times cross-linguistically and/or
experimentally. This volume will be of interest to scholars working
within the fields of semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition
and psycholinguistics.
Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the
linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and
semantic puzzles they raise. These clauses have been even more
neglected in the study of Mesoamerican languages. Headless Relative
Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages constitutes the first in-depth,
systematic study of the topic. Spanning fifteen languages from five
language families, it is the broadest crosslinguistic study of
headless relative clauses yet conducted. For most of these
languages there is no previous descriptive or documentary material
on wh-constructions in general, let alone headless relative
clauses. Many of the languages are threatened or endangered; all
are understudied. Each chapter in this volume constitutes an
original contribution to typological and theoretical linguistics.
The first chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to the
varieties of headless relative clauses and their importance to the
study of human language, while the other chapters are
language-specific and follow a uniform format to facilitate
comparisons and generalizations across languages. Through the
collective work of a team of twenty-one scholars, Headless Relative
Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages presents a clear and systematic
introduction to relative and interrogative clauses in Mesoamerican
languages.
In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal
pragmatics has grown tremendously, showing that core aspects of
language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These
principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly
intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book,
some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam
Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature
of linguistic meaning and pave the way for the further development
of formal semantics and formal pragmatics. Each chapter
investigates various dimensions in which the logical nature of
human language manifests itself within a language and/or across
languages. Phenomena like bare plurals, free choice items, scalar
implicatures, intervention effects, and logical operators are
investigated in depth and at times cross-linguistically and/or
experimentally. This volume will be of interest to scholars working
within the fields of semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition
and psycholinguistics.
In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal
pragmatics has grown tremendously showing that core aspects of
language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These
principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly
intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book,
some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam
Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature
of linguistic meaning and pave the way for the further development
of formal semantics and formal pragmatics. Each chapter
investigates various dimensions in which the logical nature of
human language manifests itself within a language and/or across
languages. Phenomena like bare plurals, free choice items, scalar
implicatures, intervention effects, and logical operators are
investigated in depth and at times cross-linguistically and/or
experimentally. This volume will be of interest to scholars working
within the fields of semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition
and psycholinguistics.
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