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undifferentiated, Allan Ramsay. The logical structure of English: Computing semantic content. Pitman, 1990.

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Frappier, Rhonda M. Semantic structure and partial word presentation differentially affects immediate and delayed recollection. Laurentian University, Department of Psychology, 1994.

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Lipka, Leonhard. An outline of English lexicology: Lexical structure, word semantics, and word-formation. Niemeyer, 1990.

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William, Empson. The structure of complex words. Penguin, 1995.

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William, Empson. The structure of complex words. Harvard University Press, 1989.

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Brugman, Claudia Marlea. The story of over: Polysemy, semantics, and the structure of the lexicon. Garland, 1988.

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Choi, Hye-Won. Optimizing structure in context: Scrambling and information structure. CSLI Publications, 1999.

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Koivisto-Alanko, Päivi. abstract words Abstract words in abstract worlds: Directionality and prototypical structure in the semantic change in English nouns of cognition. Société Néophilologique, 2000.

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Bañcamin, Ḍi. Derrida's concept of word and meaning: A critical analysis with special reference to the semantic theories of Saussure, Ānandavardhanācārya and A.R. Rajarajavarma. International School of Dravidian Linguistics, 2018.

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Ramsay, Allan. The semantic structure of noun phrases. University of Sussex School of Cognitive Sciences, 1989.

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Wechsler, Stephen. The semantic basis of argument structure. CSLI Publications, 1995.

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Aphek, Edna. Word systems in modern Hebrew: Implications and applications. E.J. Brill, 1988.

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Jonkersz, Ineke. Semantic interference and facilitation in word production: Explaining the semantic relatedness paradox. Universiteit Leiden, 2004.

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1943-, Śrīhari R., Ramakrishna Reddy B, and Dravidian University, eds. Word-structure in Dravidian. Dravidian University, 2003.

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Niquet, Gilberte. Structurer sa pensée, structurer sa phrase: Techniques d'expression orale et écrite. Hachette, 1987.

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Cottez, Henri. Dictionnaire des structures du vocabulaire savant: Éléments et modèles de formation. 4th ed. Robert, 1988.

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Georgiev, Hristo. Dictionary of word meanings: (artificial language for semantic description). Nova Science Publishers, 2010.

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Mel'cuk, Igor. Communicative organization in natural language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences. Benjamins, 2001.

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Melʹčuk, Igorʹ A. Communicative organization in natural language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences. J. Benjamins, 2001.

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Lipka, Leonhard. English Lexicology. Lexical Structure, Word Semantics, and Word- Formation. Narr, 2002.

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Components of the Content Structure of the Word. De Gruyter, Inc., 2012.

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Lipka, Leonhard. Outline of English Lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics, and Word-Formation. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2010.

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Outline of English Lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics, and Word-Formation. De Gruyter, Inc., 1990.

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The semantic basis of argument structure: [a study of the relation between word meaning and syntax]. CSLI Publications, 1995.

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Lipka, Leonhard. Outline of English Lexicology, an: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics, and Word-Formation. De Gruyter, Inc., 1990.

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Sugayama, Kensei, and Richard A. Hudson. Word Grammar: Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008.

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The structure of complex words. Hogarth, 1985.

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(Editor), Kensei Sugayama, and Richard Hudson (Editor), eds. Word Grammar: New Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006.

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Davidson, Donald. The Structure of Truth. Edited by Cameron Kirk-Giannini and Ernie Lepore. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842491.001.0001.

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Donald Davidson’s 1970 Locke Lectures appear in print for the first time in this volume, accompanied by an introduction highlighting their significance as a snapshot of his evolving views in the philosophy of language and describing their relationship to the work he published during his lifetime. The lectures comprise an invaluable historical document that illuminates how Davidson was thinking about the theory of meaning, the role of a truth theory therein, the ontological commitments of a truth theory, the notion of logical form, and so on, at a pivotal moment in the development of his thought. Unlike Davidson’s previously published work, they are written so as to be presented to an audience as a fully organized and coherent exposition of his program in the philosophy of language. Had these lectures been widely available in the years following 1970, the reception of Davidson’s work, especially in the philosophy of language, might have been very different. Given the systematic nature of the presentation of Davidson’s semantic program in these lectures, it is hoped that they will be of use to those encountering his thought for the first time.

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Piggott, Glyne, and Lisa deMena Travis, eds. Wordhood and word-internal domains. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778264.003.0003.

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This chapter investigates a view of wordhood where words are analysed as complex heads that contain no phrasal material. Several cases are examined where phonological and semantic information points to the existence of word-internal domains, but these domains are argued not to be indicative of phrases but rather phases that are spelled out separately. The claim is that syntax is a better predictor of cyclic phonological patterns than either Lexical Phonology or Stratal OT. The chapter begins with a syntactic account of an apparent counter-example to the ban on word-internal phrases by positing head adjunction via External Merge. The second section presents a phonological account of mismatches between the structure produced by the phasal spell-out in the syntax and the phonological output. The claim is these structures are created through Phonological Merger, where phonological movement from a higher to a lower phase is triggered by a phonological requirement.

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La composition en allemand: Structure sémantique et fonction littéraire : mit einer ausführlichen Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache. Frank & Timme, 2010.

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Bejan, Camelia. English Words : Structure, Origin and Meaning: A Linguistic Introduction. Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality, 2017.

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Glanville, Peter John. Words, roots, and patterns. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792734.003.0002.

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Chapter 2 establishes the semantic makeup of word meaning in general, dividing it into semantic structure and conceptual content. It familiarizes the reader with roots and patterns in Arabic morphology, investigating the semantic abstractions discernable in sets of words that share a root, in addition to the semantic structure shared by words formed in the same pattern. The chapter introduces the notion of shape-invariant morphology, arriving at an approach to Arabic morphology in which some derivation is rule-based, with operations being carried out directly on base words, whereas another type of derivation involves root extraction from a source word. Word patterns are created when a morphological operation is carried out on a base word with some regularity. Once the pattern exists, a variety of base words can be mapped to it by root extraction, creating a uniform output regardless of the shape of the input word.

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Hinterhölzl, Roland, and Svetlana Petrova. Prosodic and information-structural factors in word order variation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813545.003.0014.

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This chapter proposes an analysis that derives the word order variation in dependent clauses in OHG within a universal VO base order, plus additional cyclic leftward movement operations that target different information-structural projections in the complex left periphery of the clause. More precisely, it is argued that categories conveying contrastive information land in [Spec,FocP], with the finite verb targeting Foc° and marking the left edge of the new-information focus domain, while background information is placed further left, between ForceP and FocP. This positional realization of the verb and phrases expressing different semantic types of focus is considered a special strategy of disambiguating broad from narrow focus, as well as of avoiding the clash of two focus phrases in the middle field of clauses with multiple foci.

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Dalrymple, Mary, John J. Lowe, and Louise Mycock. The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733300.001.0001.

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This is the most comprehensive reference work on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), which will be of interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academics, and researchers in linguistics and in related fields. Covering the analysis of syntax, semantics, morphology, prosody, and information structure, and how these aspects of linguistic structure interact in the nontransformational framework of LFG, this book will appeal to readers working in a variety of sub-fields, including researchers involved in the description and documentation of languages, whose work continues to be an important part of the LFG literature The book consists of three parts. The first part examines the syntactic theory and formal architecture of LFG, with detailed explanation and comprehensive illustration, providing an unparalleled introduction to the fundamentals of the theory. The second part of the book explores nonsyntactic levels of linguistic structure, including the syntax-semantics interface and semantic representation, argument structure, information structure, prosodic structure, and morphological structure, and how these are related in the projection architecture of LFG. The third part of the book illustrates the theory more explicitly by presenting explorations of the syntax and semantics of a range of representative linguistic phenomena: modification, anaphora, control, coordination, and long-distance dependencies. The final chapter discusses LFG-based work not covered elsewhere in the book, as well as new developments in the theory.

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Semantic Structure in English. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2016.

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Semantic Structure in English. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2016.

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Goddard, Cliff. Furniture, vegetables, weapons. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736721.003.0010.

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This chapter deals with the semantic structure of functional collective superordinates, concentrating on three formally distinguishable classes. These can be termed ‘singular only’ (mass), e.g. furniture, cutlery; ‘plural mostly’, e.g. vegetables, cosmetics; and ‘countable’, e.g. weapons, vehicles. The chapter begins with a semantic overview, then moves to a selective review of the psycholinguistic and other cognitive science literature on superordinates. It is argued that much of this literature is flawed by the ‘All Superordinates are Taxonomic’ Fallacy. The study then presents semantic templates and explications for a sample of words from the three different formal classes just mentioned, in the process differentiating a number of semantic subclasses. A novel proposal is that the semantic structure of functional collective superordinates includes one or more hyponymic exemplars. This proposal and other semantic issues are reprised and discussed before some concluding remarks are offered.

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Alqassas, Ahmad. A Multi-locus Analysis of Arabic Negation. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433143.001.0001.

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This book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic. By including new and recently published data that support key issues for the syntax of negation, the book challenges the standard parametric view that negation has a fixed parametrized position in syntactic structure. It particularly argues for a multi-locus analysis with syntactic, semantic, morphosyntactic and diachronic implications for the various structural positions. Thus accounting for numerous word order restrictions, semantic ambiguities and pragmatic interpretations without complicating narrow syntax with special operations, configurations or constraints. The book includes data from Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic, which shed light on word order contrasts in negative clauses and their interaction with tense/aspect, mood/modality, semantic scope over adverbs, and negative sensitive items. It also has new data challenging the standard claim in Arabic linguistics literature that negation has a fixed parametrized position in the clause structure. The book brings a new perspective on the role of negation in licensing negative sensitive items, scoping over propositions and interacting with pragmatic notions such as presupposition and speech acts.

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Arka, I. Wayan, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King, eds. Modular Design of Grammar. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844842.001.0001.

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Modular design of grammar: Linguistics on the edge presents the cutting edge of research on linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design that models the linguistic system as a set of discreet submodules that include, among others, constituent structure, functional structure, argument structure, semantic structure, and prosodic structure, with each module having its coherent properties and being related to each other by correspondence functions. Following a detailed introduction, Part I scrutinises the nature of linguistic structures, interfaces and representations in LFG’s architecture and ontology. Parts II and III are concerned with problems, analyses and generalisations associated with linguistic phenomena which are of long-standing theoretical significance, including agreement, reciprocals, possessives, reflexives, raising, subjecthood, and relativisation, demonstrating how these phenomena can be naturally accounted for within LFG’s modular architecture. Part IV explores issues of the synchronic and diachronic dynamics of syntactic categories in grammar, such as unlike category coordination, fuzzy categorial edges, and consequences of decategorialization, providing explicit LFG solutions to such problems including those which result from language change in progress. The final part re-examines and refines the precise representations and interfaces of syntax with morphology, semantics and pragmatics to account for challenging facts such as suspended affixation, prosody in multiple question word interrogatives and information structure, anaphoric dependencies, and idioms.

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Kihm, Alain. Old French declension. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198712329.003.0003.

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Old French noun inflection emerged and disappeared early in the history of the French language. A number or reasons are examined including the nature of sound changes occurring between Late Latin and Old French. Paradigm structure is another reason. The declensional paradigms of masculine nouns produced a mismatch between morphological and semantic defaults for the number and case features. This was because the non-default values of these features came to be expressed by a morphologically default, uninflected word-form, thus resulting in a system that was both weird in terms of the morphology-semantics interface and probably hard to acquire and to process. Repairing the mismatch entailed giving up declension in favour of a simple number contrast where the semantic non-defaultness of plurality matches the inflectedness of the plural form. Default considerations thus played the role of analogy in the Neogrammarian scenario of language change, restoring order where sound change had created chaos.

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Callow, John C., Michael F. Kopesec, and John Beekman. Semantic Structure of Written Communication. SIL International Publications, 2017.

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Beavers, John, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. The Roots of Verbal Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855781.001.0001.

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This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly of an event structure, made up of an event template describing the verb’s broad temporal and causal contours that occurs across lots of verbs and groups them into semantic and grammatical classes, plus an idiosyncratic root describing specific, real world states and actions that distinguish verbs with the same template. While much work has focused on templates, less work has addressed the truth conditional contributions of roots, despite the importance of a theory of root meaning in fully defining the predictions event structural approaches make. This book addresses this lacuna, exploring two previously proposed constraints on root meaning: The Bifurcation Thesis of Roots, whereby roots never introduce the meanings introduced by templates, and Manner/Result Complementarity, which has as a component that roots can describe either a manner or a result state but never both at the same time. Two extended case studies, on change-of-state verbs and ditransitive verbs of caused possession, show that neither hypothesis holds, and that ultimately there may be no constraints on what a root can mean. Nonetheless, the book argues that event structures still have predictive value, and it presents a new theory of possible root meanings and how they interact with event templates that produces a new typology of possible verbs, albeit one where not just templates but also roots determine systematic semantic and grammatical properties.

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Devine, A. M., and Laurence D. Stephens. Pragmatics for Latin. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190939472.001.0001.

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Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning. This book provides a descriptive analysis of Latin information structure based on detailed philological evidence and elaborates a syntax-pragmatics interface that formalizes the informational content of the various different word orders. The book covers a wide ranges of issues including broad scope focus, narrow scope focus, double focus, topicalization, tails, focus alternates, association with focus, scrambling, informational structure inside the noun phrase and hyperbaton (discontinuous constituency). Using a slightly adjusted version of the structured meanings theory, the book shows how the pragmatic meanings matching the different word orders arise naturally and spontaneously out of the compositional process as an integral part of a single semantic derivation covering denotational and informational meaning at one and the same time.

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The Semantic Structure of Written Communication. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications, 2017.

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Coates, Richard. Word Structure. Taylor & Francis Group, 2002.

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Coates, Richard. Word Structure. Taylor & Francis Group, 2002.

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Coates, Richard. Word Structure. Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203056462.

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Coates, Richard. Word Structure. Taylor & Francis Group, 2002.

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Coates, Richard. Word Structure. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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