The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions: A Comparative Study - Hardcover

Butler, A.; Mathieu, E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403921121 ISBN 13: 9781403921123

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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Split constructions are very widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a conceptual simplicity. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of syntax and semantics.

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ALASTAIR BUTLER is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Formal Language Games Research Group at the Institute for Logic, Language and Information, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests are topics in natural language syntax and semantics.

ERIC MATHIEU is an affiliated Researcher in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College, London. His work is on the syntax-semantics interface.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1403921121
• ISBN 13: 9781403921123
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 235
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Dt. Universitätsverlag; buchhandel-buch@springer.com; ; Abraham-Lincoln-Str. 46; Wiesbaden; 65198; Deutschland