Semantics an international handbook of contemporary research

About this book During the past 20 years the investigation into meaning of natural languages has emerged into one of the most active disciplines in theoretical linguistics. Supplementary Materials Inhaltsverzeichnis.

Stechow, A. Stechow, Arnim von and Wunderlich, Dieter. Stechow A, Wunderlich D. Copy to clipboard. Log in Register. Download book PDF. Allgemeine Grundlagen. Basic Concepts of Semantics M. Probleme der ontologischen Grundlegung: Welt versus Situation.

Die Weltsituation M. Theorie der Satzsemantik. Syntax and Semantics of Categorial Languages M. Semantische Grundlagen der Sprechakte. Some things Fred and I didn't do. Talk at symposium on retirement of Fred Lerdahl unpublished. Masini eds. Representations and Rules , in Bryce Huebner ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

Multiword constructions in the grammar with Peter Culicover and Jenny Audring. Topics in Cognitive Science , 9, Case assignment and argument realization in nominals Anastasia Smirnova and RJ , Language 93, In Defense of Theory, Cognitive Science 1— In: Bachrach, A. Structuring the Argument. John Benjamins, Newmeyer and L. Preston, Measuring Grammatical Complexity , Oxford University Press, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ReVEL , vol. Same-except: A domain-general cognitive relation and how language expresses it , with Peter Culicover, in Language 88, Language as a source of evidence for theories of spatial representation , Perception 41, pp.

The study demonstrates patterns of interaction between the modal readings of can and the grammatical aspectual forms of the main verb. Moreover, it also shows that when modality concerns past events expressed through the perfect aspect, it tends to take epistemic conversational backgrounds.

In addition to this, this research has also revealed the interaction of modality with subjectival negation. In Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss eds. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 3— Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. Scarborough: University of Toronto. Journal of English Linguistics 33 4 , — DOI The Handbook of English Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, — Oxford: Blackwell.

A Typological Study. Diachronica 32 2 , — Linguistics and Philosophy 32, — Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, —