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A Life in Linguistics
Alexandra Cornilescu is an internationally renowned linguist, whose pioneering ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Romania, Europe and beyond. The weightiness of her contributions to the field is matched only by her talent for disseminating them. Ever since 1970, when she started teaching at the University of Bucharest, she has continuously played a tireless and inspirational role in the creation of several generations of linguists, which the academic world has come to admiringly refer to as The Bucharest School. As the initiator of the AICED conference, held annually in the English Department at the University of Bucharest, she has turned it into one of the leading platforms of generative linguistics in Europe. She has published extensively on Romanian and English linguistics and is also the founder and past editor of the journal Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. On the occasion of her 75th birthday, her friends, students and colleagues celebrate Alexandra Cornilescu’s work with this collection of essays on various topics of current theoretical interest.
Umop 40
This volume, UMOP 40, includes a collection of papers by students, former students and colleagues, in honor of the ever wonderful Peggy Speas. We are forever in Peggy's debt for inspiring all this wonderful work in so many different areas of Linguistics over the years. This list of papers, including contributions in Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology and Language Processing, is only a small sample of all of the brilliant work Peggy advised, inspired, and improved. Contents: Verbal Classifiers in Sign Languages. . . Agreement vs AGREE? (Elena E. Benedicto), The semantics of the future in Navajo (Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten), Class Structure: Verb Classes as Argument Structure in Cherokee...
Syntactic architecture and its consequences II
This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters address research questions in comparative morphosyntax, including the modelling of syntactic categories, relative clauses, and demonstrative systems. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and give the reader a sense of the lively nature of current discussion of topics in morphosyntax and morphosyntactic variation.
A Theory of Indexical Shift
A comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift that develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages. The phenomenon of indexical shift—whereby indexicals embedded in speech or attitude reports draw their meaning from an attitude event rather than the utterance context—has been reported in languages spanning five continents and at least ten language families. In this book, Amy Rose Deal offers a comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift and develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages—a picture of variation that is both rich enough to capture the known facts and restrictive enough to make predi...
Formal Perspectives on Secondary Predication
The topic of secondary predication has attracted much attention especially in the generative literature. The present volume distinguishes itself from previous volumes on this topic in that all chapters discuss current issues in the syntax and semantics of secondary predication in the languages of Europe (including the Indo-European languages English, Dutch, French, and Spanish, as well as Hungarian, a Finno-Ugric language) and the languages of Asia (including Japanese, Chinese, and Korean) from formal linguistic perspectives. This book brings to light important new results in and directions for research on secondary predication.
SULA 9: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas
This volume contains the proceedings of the ninth annual meeting of the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas, held at University of California, Santa Cruz, on May 6-8, 2016. Contents: Illocutionary mirativity: the case of Yucatec Maya bak�an (Scott Anderbois), Modality in Ktunaxa (Heather Burge), The nominal temporal marker -pe in Kuikuro (Bruna Franchetto & Guillaume Thomas), Presuppositional negation in Wapishana (Marcelo Giovannetti & Renato Miguel Basso), Marcelo Giovannetti & Renato Miguel Basso (Kaden Holladay), Temporal implicatures and possessive time in Brazilian Portuguese (Filipe H. Kobayashi), Modeling obviation in Algonquian (Carol-Rose Little & Mary Morone...
Interactions of Degree and Quantification
Interactions of Degree and Quantification examines connections and semantic parallels between individual and degree quantifiers in the expression of quantity and measurement in human language.
Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II
This volume is the second in a two-part collection of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics. Despite increasing interest in discourse particles, most research in the area (particularly within formal semantics and pragmatics) focuses on a restricted set of languages, and there has been little consensus on the proper formal treatment of particles. The term "discourse particles" has been used to cover a broad range of phenomena, including such things as "sentence-final particles," "discourse adverbs," and other related phenomena. In recent years, there has been extensive develop...
Modality in Underdescribed Languages
Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world’s language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks, as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques. The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools, while also indicating the successes and challenges of their contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.
