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Seuren, Pieter. "Essentials of Semantic Syntax." Cadernos de Linguística 2, no. 1 (January 28, 2021): 01–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n1.id290.

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Semantic Syntax (SeSyn), originally called Generative Semantics, is an offshoot of Chomskyan generative grammar (ChoGG), rejected by Chomsky and his school in the late 1960s. SeSyn is the theory of algorithmical grammars producing the well-formed sentences of a language L from the corresponding semantic input, the Semantic Analysis (SA), represented as a traditional tree structure diagram in a specific formal language of incremental predicate logic with quantifying and qualifying operators (including the truth functions), and with all lexical items filled in. A SeSyn-type grammar is thus by definition transformational, but not generative. The SA originates in cognition in a manner that is still largely mysterious, but its actual form can be distilled from the Surface Structure (SS) of the sentences of L following the principles set out in SeSyn. In this presentation we provide a more or less technical résumé of the SeSyn theory. A comparison is made with ChoGG-type grammars, which are rejected on account of their intrinsic unsuitability as a cognitive-realist grammar model. The ChoGG model follows the pattern of a 1930s neopositivist Carnap-type grammar for formal logical languages. Such grammars are random sentence generators, whereas, obviously, (nonpathological) humans are not. A ChoGG-type grammar is fundamentally irreconcilable with a mentalist-realist theory of grammar. The body of the paper consists in a demonstration of the production of an English and a French sentence, the latter containing a classic instance of the cyclic rule of Predicate Raising (PR), essential in the general theory of clausal complementation yet steadfastly repudiated in ChoGG for reasons that have never been clarified. The processes and categories defined in SeSyn are effortlessly recognised in languages all over the world, whether indigenous or languages of a dominant culture—taking into account language-specific values for the general theoretical parameters involved. This property makes SeSyn particularly relevant for linguistic typology, which now ranks as the most promising branch of linguistics but has so far conspicuously lacked an adequate theoretical basis.
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CHOLAKOV, KOSTADIN. "Lexical acquisition and semantic space models: Learning the semantics of unknown words." Natural Language Engineering 20, no. 4 (March 5, 2013): 537–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1351324913000053.

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AbstractIn recent studies it has been shown that syntax-based semantic space models outperform models in which the context is represented as a bag-of-words in several semantic analysis tasks. This has been generally attributed to the fact that syntax-based models employ corpora that are syntactically annotated by a parser and a computational grammar. However, if the corpora processed contain words which are unknown to the parser and the grammar, a syntax-based model may lose its advantage since the syntactic properties of such words are unavailable. On the other hand, bag-of-words models do not face this issue since they operate on raw, non-annotated corpora and are thus more robust. In this paper, we compare the performance of syntax-based and bag-of-words models when applied to the task of learning the semantics of unknown words. In our experiments, unknown words are considered the words which are not known to the Alpino parser and grammar of Dutch. In our study, the semantics of an unknown word is defined by finding its most similar word incornetto, a Dutch lexico-semantic hierarchy. We show that for unknown words the syntax-based model performs worse than the bag-of-words approach. Furthermore, we show that if we first learn the syntactic properties of unknown words by an appropriate lexical acquisition method, then in fact the syntax-based model does outperform the bag-of-words approach. The conclusion we draw is that, for words unknown to a given grammar, a bag-of-words model is more robust than a syntax-based model. However, the combination of lexical acquisition and syntax-based semantic models is best suited for learning the semantics of unknown words.
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Egli, Urs. "Stoic syntax and semantics." Historiographia Linguistica 13, no. 2-3 (January 1, 1986): 281–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.13.2-3.09egl.

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Summary The Stoic theory of loquia (lekta) contained a fairly explicit statement of formation rules. It is argued that one type of rule was called syntaxis (combination or phrase structure rule) by Chrysippus (e.g., “a subject in the nominative case and a complete predicate form a statement”). Two other types of rule were assignments of words to lexical categories (“Dion is a Noun Phrase”) and subsumption rules (“Every elementary statement is a statement”), often formulated in the form of subdivisions of concepts. A fourth type of rule seems to have been the class of transformations (enklisis, e.g., “A statement transformed by the preterite transformation is a statement”). Every syntactic rule was accompanied by a semantic interpretation according to a version of the compositionality principle familiar in modern times since Frege and elaborated by Montague and his followers. Though the concrete example of a syntax was a fairly elaborate version of some sort of Montague type or definite clause grammar, there was no effort to introduce a theory of grammar in the style of Chomsky. But the texts show awareness of the problem of the infinity of structure generated and of the concept of structural ambiguity. The Stoic system has been transformed into the formulation of the Word and Paradigm Grammar of the technical grammarians – “transformation” (enklisis) was the historical antecedent of paragôgê, declinatio, “inflection”, etc. Some formulations have survived into modern times, e.g., the notion of government, for which Stoic type formulations like “a deficient predicate can be combined with a subject in the accusative case to form a complete predicate” are a historical antecedent.
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Kovačević, Željko, Marjan Mernik, Miha Ravber, and Matej Črepinšek. "From Grammar Inference to Semantic Inference—An Evolutionary Approach." Mathematics 8, no. 5 (May 18, 2020): 816. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math8050816.

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This paper describes a research work on Semantic Inference, which can be regarded as an extension of Grammar Inference. The main task of Grammar Inference is to induce a grammatical structure from a set of positive samples (programs), which can sometimes also be accompanied by a set of negative samples. Successfully applying Grammar Inference can result only in identifying the correct syntax of a language. With the Semantic Inference a further step is realised, namely, towards inducing language semantics. When syntax and semantics can be inferred, a complete compiler/interpreter can be generated solely from samples. In this work Evolutionary Computation was employed to explore and exploit the enormous search space that appears in Semantic Inference. For the purpose of this research work the tool LISA.SI has been developed on the top of the compiler/interpreter generator tool LISA. The first results are encouraging, since we were able to infer the semantics only from samples and their associated meanings for several simple languages, including the Robot language.
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Steedman, Mark. "Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface." Linguistic Inquiry 31, no. 4 (October 2000): 649–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438900554505.

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The article proposes a theory of grammar relating syntax, discourse semantics, and intonational prosody. The full range of English intonational tunes distinguished by Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986) and their semantic interpretation in terms of focus and information structure are discussed, including “discontinuous” themes and rhemes. The theory extends an earlier account based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, which directly pairs phonological and logical forms without intermediary representational levels.
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Kalyanov, G. N., B. V. Kupriyanov, and O. V. Lukinova. "Adaptation of the DFD technology in the modeling of business systems in the environment of RDS." Open Education 23, no. 2 (May 14, 2019): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/1818-4243-2019-2-61-68.

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The article is devoted to the description of structural methods of processes modeling, represented by visual languages of business processes modeling of socio-economic systems, designed not only for static functional/information modeling of processes, but also allowing to simulate their behavior.The description of grammar of structural languages of designing business processes of the enterprise which subsets it is offered to adapt for expansion of input language of the tool complex of RDS (Calculation of Dynamic Systems) that will allow to use opportunities of a complex for the solution of problems of the analysis not only dynamic, but also business models of organizational and economic systems are given. Provides the syntax and semantics of DFD, STD, ERD-notations. For the formal description of the syntax it is proposed to use the apparatus of mixed grammars, which are a combination of graph and ordinary grammars. The article describes the grammar that generates the simplest dialect of DFD-technology, informally describes the semantic aspects of the language, in particular the semantics of relations between the objects of the language.The basic constructions of the proposed language, its syntax and semantics are presented. Classification of potential errors is given. Non-terminal symbols of the language are presented in detail: diagram, DFD-diagram, STD-diagram, ERD-diagram, mini-specification, service structures are defined (including data dictionary).The types and sorts of evaluation criteria in the problems of business models quality analysis, syntax errors detection, as well as static semantics errors during their implementation in RDS are described. Static analysis of the business model is carried out in three directions which are syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Analysis methods can be divided into the following classes: syntactical, i.e. those that reveal violations of the syntax of the diagram representation language; semantic, revealing violations of the semantic representation of diagrams and their elements; methods of analyzing the quality of the business model, evaluated by the parameters of connectivity and cohesion.The implementation of the described methods and mechanisms is assumed as an additional module of simulation modeling of business processes as part of the RDS software complex, which is a tool for building research stands that provide the process of modeling, analysis and synthesis of control systems. The complex was implemented in the framework of projects implemented in the IPU RAS. The article defines the purpose, composition and structure of the business process simulation module.
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Teimi, Cherif. "The Correspondence between Syntax and Semantics." International Journal of English Linguistics 6, no. 3 (May 26, 2016): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v6n3p118.

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<p>The issue of Interfaces is central to linguistic studies. Modern linguistics, especially semantic studies, has given a special interest to this topic. However, up till very recently, the issue has been dealt with mainly from a syntactico-centric point of view. Throughout the development of linguistic theories, there has been a rooted idea in generative grammar that meaning is generated from syntactic structure. In fact, although we adopt the Conceptual Semantics framework, which considers meaning to be too rich and multidimensional to be encoded in purely syntactic mechanisms, we shall deal with the correspondence between syntax and semantics where these two components directly correlate with one another. In other words, we will deal with the topic from the angle where syntax bears <em>all</em> semantic relations.</p>
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YUASA, ETSUYO, and JERRY M. SADOCK. "Pseudo-subordination: a mismatch between syntax and semantics." Journal of Linguistics 38, no. 1 (March 2002): 87–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226701001256.

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Culicover & Jackendoff (1997) argue that ‘left-subordinating’ and-constructions (e.g. You drink one more can of beer and I'm leaving) should be differently represented in the dimensions of syntax and semantics, being coordinate in the former, and subordinate in the latter. Here we expand on their point by showing that their case is not an isolated one, but that there are many other instances of coordination-subordination mismatches. We will show that these facts make sense within a theory of grammar such as Autolexical Grammar (Sadock 1991) in which the autonomy of different components of grammar is assumed. Given such a view it is possible to postulate primitive notions of coordination and subordination that apply equally well to various components of grammar and thus predict the possibility of coordination-subordination mismatches.
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Jiang, Canzhong. "Typological and Diachronic Motivations for Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Resultative Construction." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 5 (May 1, 2019): 582. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0905.13.

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Motivations for syntax and semantics of Chinese Resultative Construction have been primarily attributed to thematic operations, syntactic movements or argument raising within its components by previous researches. However, such an attribution has resulted in not inconsiderable theoretical and practical issues and controversies, e.g., over generation, existence of quite a few exceptions, unlicensed violations of theoretical rules and principles. This paper re-examined motivations for syntax and semantics of Chinese Resultative Construction from typological and diachronic perspectives within the framework of Construction Grammar. It is argued that syntax and semantics of Chinese Resultative Construction are typologically motivated by Causative Constructions in the sense that its syntactic and semantic properties are inherited from different kinds Causative Constructions while they are diachronically motivated in the senses that they are historically inherited from Serial Verb Construction [V V] due to semantic shift and disyllabification. This paper has provided totally different explanations for syntax and semantics of Chinese Resultative Construction by focusing on their gestalt properties, in stark contrast to previous emphasis on bottom-up motivations from components of Chinese Resultative Construction, which will prove a breakthrough for further research on syntax-semantics interface of Chinese Resultative Construction.
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Bozsahin, Cem. "The Combinatory Morphemic Lexicon." Computational Linguistics 28, no. 2 (June 2002): 145–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/089120102760173634.

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Grammars that expect words from the lexicon may be at odds with the transparent projection of syntactic and semantic scope relations of smaller units. We propose a morphosyntactic framework based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar that provides flexible constituency, flexible category consistency, and lexical projection of morphosyntactic properties and attachment to grammar in order to establish a morphemic grammar-lexicon. These mechanisms provide enough expressive power in the lexicon to formulate semantically transparent specifications without the necessity to confine structure forming to words and phrases. For instance, bound morphemes as lexical items can have phrasal scope or word scope, independent of their attachment characteristics but consistent with their semantics. The controls can be attuned in the lexicon to language-particular properties. The result is a transparent interface of inflectional morphology, syntax, and semantics. We present a computational system and show the application of the framework to English and Turkish.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Grammar; Syntax; Semantics"

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LIU, HSIAO-MEI. "A CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR ANALYSIS OF CHINESE SEPARABLE COMPOUNDS AND PHRASES (SYNTAX, SEMANTICS)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183896.

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The lexicon of modern Chinese is composed mainly of disyllabic compound words; some of the compounds are separable, while others are not. Hindered by problems with the definition of the Chinese word and by the concept of separate grammatical levels on which morphological, syntactic and semantic processes occur, previous linguistic studies have been unable to fully account for the separability of some compounds and for the relationship of compound separability to phrase separability. This dissertation finds that, with morphemes having the same syntactic association with other morphemes that words or phrases have with other words or phrases, categorial rules logically explain the common syntax of Chinese words and phrases. In categorial grammar analysis based on the work of Ajdukiewicz (1935), Montague (1974), Partee (1972; 1975), and Bach (1983; 1984), categories are determined by functions associating the expressions in component sets, and syntactic operations build categories up into larger derived categories according to specified functor-argument relations. In the present analysis of Chinese, to the set of the non-verb general category belong morphemes, words and phrases whose form classes are not verbs and which are generic names. Argument expressions, both compound words and verb phrases which belong to this category, combine with the intransitive/non-verb general functor to form the IV category. Rules operating by concatenation, cliticization and wrapping account for the occurrence of resultative expressions, aspect markers, and expressions of time duration or time frequency between the components of separable compounds. Further, the hierarchy of thematic roles devised by Jackendoff (1972) is applied to account for cases in which the functors in IV combine with more than one argument. In this way, an analysis which combines principles of morphology, syntax and semantics is able to account for the identity of compound and phrase separability and derive grammatical sentences for the language.
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Schueler, David Edward. "The syntax and semantics of implicit conditionals filling in the antecedent /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619097961&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Kaiser, Stefan Konrad Friedrich Franz. "Headless relative clauses in Japanese." Thesis, University of London, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281966.

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Yamamoto, Kyosuke. "A semantic approach to Ilocano Grammar." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/242310.

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Tomioka, Naoko. "Resultative constructions : cross-linguistic variation and the syntax-semantics interface." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102217.

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This thesis examines constructions known as resultative constructions. In addition to the well-known adjectival resultative construction in English, I investigate the resultative V-V compound, found in Japanese, and the resultative serial verb construction, found in Edo.
I propose a new classification of these constructions, which focuses on the argument structure of the construction. In Japanese resultative V-V compounds, the argument structure of a compound reflects the argument structure of the second verb only, while in Edo, the argument structure of the construction reflects the argument structure of both verbs involved. With this criterion, English resultative constructions are divided into two classes---a resultative construction containing an intransitive verb is classified with Japanese resultative V-V compounds, and a resultative construction containing an object-selecting verb is classified with Edo resultative serial verb constructions.
Based on the classification provided here, I investigate two types of syntactic operations which license the concatenation of the predicates in resultative constructions. I argue that English intransitive resultative constructions and Japanese resultative V-V compounds are formed by adjoining one of the predicates on the other. The adjunction structure is then interpreted as conjunction called event identification. In contrast, English transitive resultative constructions and Edo resultative serial verb constructions are licensed by treating one of the predicates as a causative predicate. I argue that one of the predicates in these constructions undergoes lexical coercion, and acquires a causative meaning. The newly-formed causative verb takes the other predicate of the construction as its complement. This structure is then interpreted with function-application. I hence argue that the structural difference between the two types of resultative constructions also mirrors the difference in the type of semantic operations used to interpret these constructions.
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Ben, Khelil Cherifa. "Construction semi-automatique d'une grammaire d'arbres adjoints pour l'analyse syntaxico-sémantique de l'arabe." Thesis, Orléans, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ORLE2013.

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Cette thèse traite de la description formelle et du développement d’une grammaire électronique de la langue arabe. Ce travail est un prérequis à la création d’outils de traitement automatique de l’arabe.Cette langue présente de nombreux défis pour un traitement automatique. En effet l’ordre de mots en arabe est relativement libre, la morphologie y est riche et les diacritiques sont omis dans les textes écrits. Bien que plusieurs travaux de recherche aient abordé certaines de ces problématiques, les ressources électroniques utiles pour le traitement de l’arabe demeurent relativement rares ou encore peu disponibles. Dans ce travail de thèse, nous nous sommes intéressés à la représentation de la syntaxe (ordre des mots) et du sens de l’arabe standard moderne. Comme système formel de représentation de la langue, nous avons choisi le formalisme des grammaires d’arbres adjoints (Tree Adjoining Grammar). Nous avons ainsi proposé une grammaire d’arbres adjoints électronique de l’arabe nommée « ArabTAG V2.0 ». Cette ressource réutilise en partie la modélisation préexistante dans la grammaire définie manuellement «ArabTAG » et l’intègre à une représentation abstraite appelée méta-grammaire. L’expert linguiste peut ainsi décrire la syntaxe et sémantique de la langue avec des outils d’abstraction facilitant la maintenance et l’extension de la grammaire. La grammaire ainsi décrite compte 1074 règles syntaxiques (non lexicalisées) et 27 cadres sémantiques (relations prédicatives). Cette ressource a été évaluée en analysant un corpus issu d’extraits d’un manuel scolaire d’apprentissage de l’arabe
This thesis deals with the formal description and development of an electronic grammar of Arabic language. This work is a prerequisite for the creation of automatic Arabic processing tools. This language presents many challenges for automatic processing. Indeed the order of words in Arabic is relatively free,the morphology is rich and the diacritics are omitted in written texts. Although several research studies have addressed some of these issues, electronic resources useful for the processing of Arabic remain relatively rare or not widely available. In this thesis work, we are interested in the representation of syntax (word order) and the meaning of modern standard Arabic. As a formal system of language representation, we chose the formalism of Tree Adjoining Grammar. Thus we proposed an electronic adjoint tree grammar of Arabic named"ArabTAGV2.0". This resource partially reuses the pre-existing modeling in the manually defined grammar "ArabTAG" and integrates it into an abstract representation called meta-grammar. The linguistic expert canthus describe the syntax and semantics of the language with abstraction tools facilitating the maintenance and extension of the grammar. The new described grammar has 1074 syntactical rules (not lexicalized) and27 semantic frameworks (predicative relations). This resource was evaluated by analyzing a corpus from excerpts of an Arabic textbook
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Chow, Pui-lun, and 周佩倫. "The syntax-semantics interface of resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50434482.

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 This thesis focuses on a special type of construction in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese long discussed in the literature, namely resultative constructions. The interest of the study lies in the fact that resultative constructions involve an interesting mismatch phenomenon of the mapping of grammatical functions and semantic roles. Since grammatical functions and semantic roles are the building blocks of syntax and semantics, the mapping between grammatical functions and semantic roles is considered a manifestation of the syntactic and semantic interface and it is believed that the study of the mapping between them will shed light on the form and meaning association found inhuman language. However, while an adequate mapping theory can reflect how human experience or meaning is expressed in language, the mapping between grammatical functions and semantic roles is neither linear nor mutually correspondent on a one-to-one basis, rendering the nature of its mechanism obscure. In this thesis, the interface between the semantic and syntactic realizations of resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese will be investigated. The goal is to seek an optimal approach which can provide a more satisfactory account in handling mapping of Mandarin and Cantonese resultatives and explaining the special properties of the V-V structures involved in Mandarin and Cantonese resultative constructions. Drawing from the insights of previous accounts and the properties of resultative constructions, a working definition for resultatives is proposed. Through reviewing some current mapping accounts and revealing their inadequacies and limitations in handling grammatical functions and semantic roles mapping in resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, I am going to argue that Jackendoff’s (1990) conceptual semantics approach provides an optimal structure for the representation of resultative compounds in particular and the resultative constructions in general in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. I also want to argue that the investigation of the resultative constructions in Mandarin and Cantonese not only sheds light on the prospect of applying Jackendoff’s (1990) conceptual semantics approach to understanding other types of constructions and special phenomena in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, but also indicates a new direction of study in the possible multiple sense involved in Mandarin and Cantonese compounds.
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Uechi, Akihiko. "An interface approach to topic/focus structure." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/NQ34637.pdf.

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Lowe, John J. "The syntax and semantics of tense-aspect stem participles in early Ṛgvedic Sanskrit." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:45516bfd-cffb-457a-904c-100695cbd938.

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In this thesis I investigate the syntax and semantics of tense-aspect stem participles in the Ṛgveda, focusing primarily on the data from the earlier books II–VII and IX, seeking to establish a comprehensive and coherent analysis of this category within the linguistic system of Ṛgvedic Sanskrit. In recent literature tense-aspect stem participles are usually treated as semantically equivalent to finite verbs wherever possible, but contradictorily where they differ from finite verbs their adjectival nature is emphasized. I argue that tense-aspect stem participles are a fundamentally verbal formation and can be treated as inflectional verb forms: they are adjectival verbs rather than verbal adjectives. At the same time, however, they constitute an independent sub-category of verb form which is not necessarily semantically dependent on corresponding finite stems. I examine the syntactic and semantic properties of tense-aspect stem participles both in relation to finite verbal forms and their wider syntactic context, formalizing the evidence in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Consequently I am able to categorize the syntactic and semantic deviations which many participles exhibit in comparison to finite verbal forms. I contend that many such forms cannot be treated synchronically (and sometimes diachronically) as participles, but form distinct synchronic categories. My analysis permits a considerably more refined definition of the category of tense-aspect stem participles, dependent on clear morphological, syntactic and semantic criteria, as opposed to the usual, purely morphological, definition. From a diachronic perspective I argue that the category of tense-aspect stem participles as found in the Ṛgveda more closely reflects an inherited Proto-Indo-European category of tense-aspect stem participles than is usually assumed. I also reconsider theoretical treatments of participial syntax and semantics, and develop a more precise typology of non-finite verb systems which adequately accounts for Sanskrit participles.
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Gonzalez-Rivera, Melvin. "On The Internal Structure of Spanish Verbless Clauses." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291837748.

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Books on the topic "Grammar; Syntax; Semantics"

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Between syntax and semantics. New York: Routledge, 2009.

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Valin, Robert D. Van. The syntax-semantics interface. New York: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2005.

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Seuren, Pieter A. M. Semantic syntax. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1996.

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Exploring the syntax-semantics interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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1949-, Sag Ivan A., ed. Information-based syntax and semantics. Stanford, Calif: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1987.

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Pollard, Carl Jesse. Information-based syntax and semantics. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1987.

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Pinkster, Harm. Latin syntax and semantics. London: Routledge, 1990.

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Pinkster, Harm. Latin syntax and semantics. London: Routledge, 1990.

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Morrill, Glyn V. Categorial grammar: Logical syntax, semantics, and processing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Semantics and syntax: Parallels and connections. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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Alves-Foss, Jim, and Deborah Frincke. "Formal Grammar for Java." In Formal Syntax and Semantics of Java, 1–40. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48737-9_1.

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Hu, Jianhua. "The syntax and semantics of wh-questions." In Prominence and Locality in Grammar, 9–94. New York, NY : Routledge, [2019] | Series: Routledge studies in Chinese linguistics: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429273209-2.

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Guest, Elizabeth. "Parsing for Role and Reference Grammar." In Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, 435–53. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.105.30gue.

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O'Connor, Rob. "A prosodic projection for Role and Reference Grammar." In Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, 227–44. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.105.18oc.

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Haspelmath, Martin. "Ditransitive constructions: Towards a new Role and Reference Grammar account?" In Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, 75–100. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.105.09has.

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Bellosta von Colbe, Valeriano. "Is Role and Reference Grammar an adequate grammatical theory for punctuation?" In Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, 245–61. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.105.19bel.

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de Groote, Philippe, Sylvain Pogodalla, and Carl Pollard. "On the Syntax-Semantics Interface: From Convergent Grammar to Abstract Categorial Grammar." In Logic, Language, Information and Computation, 182–96. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02261-6_15.

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Van Valin, Robert D. "RPs and the nature of lexical and syntactic categories in Role and Reference Grammar." In Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, 161–78. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.105.14van.

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Pollard, Carl J. "Categorial Grammar and Phrase Structure Grammar: An Excursion on the Syntax-Semantics Frontier." In Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 391–415. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6878-4_14.

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Biskri, Ismail, and Jean-Pierre Desclés. "Applicative and combinatiry categorical grammar (from syntax to functional semantics)." In Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 71. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.136.08bis.

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Conference papers on the topic "Grammar; Syntax; Semantics"

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Debusmann, Ralph, Denys Duchier, Alexander Koller, Marco Kuhlmann, Gert Smolka, and Stefan Thater. "A relational syntax-semantics interface based on dependency grammar." In the 20th international conference. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1220355.1220381.

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Han, Chung-hye, and Nancy Hedberg. "A tree adjoining grammar analysis of the syntax and semantics ofit-clefts." In the Eighth International Workshop. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1654690.1654695.

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Wu, Dekai, Chi-kiu Lo, Meriem Beloucif, and Markus Saers. "Better Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation via Inversion Transduction Grammars." In Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/w14-4003.

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Huck, Matthias, Hieu Hoang, and Philipp Koehn. "Preference Grammars and Soft Syntactic Constraints for GHKM Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation." In Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/w14-4018.

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Addanki, Karteek, and Dekai Wu. "Transduction Recursive Auto-Associative Memory: Learning Bilingual Compositional Distributed Vector Representations of Inversion Transduction Grammars." In Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/w14-4013.

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