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Hausser, Roland R. Computation of language: An essay on syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in natural man-machine communication. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1989.

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The semantic representation of natural language. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.

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Knott, Alistair. Sensorimotor cognition and natural language syntax. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.

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Knott, Alistair. Sensorimotor cognition and natural language syntax. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.

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Basciano, Bianca, Franco Gatti, and Anna Morbiato. Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6.

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This volume collects papers presenting corpus-based research on Chinese language and linguistics, from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The contributions cover different fields of linguistics, including syntax and pragmatics, semantics, morphology and the lexicon, sociolinguistics, and corpus building. There is now considerable emphasis on the reliability of linguistic data: the studies presented here are all grounded in the tenet that corpora, intended as collections of naturally occurring texts produced by a variety of speakers/writers, provide a more robust, statistically significant foundation for linguistic analysis. The volume explores not only the potential of using corpora as tools allowing access to authentic language material, but also the challenges involved in corpus interrogation, analysis, and building.
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Broekhuis, Hans, and Norbert Corver. Syntax of Dutch. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720502.

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The multi-volume work Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. The text of the seven already available volumes was written between 1995 and 2015 and issued in print between 2012 and 2016. The various volumes are primarily concerned with the description of the Dutch language and, only where this is relevant, with linguistic theory. They will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language. This volume is the final one of the series and addresses issues relating to coordination. It contains three chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the syntactic and semantic properties of coordinate structures and their constituting elements, that is, the coordinators and the coordinands they link. Chapter 2 discusses the types of ellipsis known as conjunction reduction and gapping found in coordinate structures. Chapter 3 discusses elements seemingly exhibiting coordination-like properties, such as dan ‘than’ in comparative constructions like Jan is groter dan zij ‘Jan is taller than she’.
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Kuroda, S. Y. Japanese Syntax and Semantics: Collected Papers (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol 27). Springer, 1993.

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Kaplan, Ronald M. Syntax. Edited by Ruslan Mitkov. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199276349.013.0004.

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This article introduces some of the phenomena that theories of natural language syntax aim to explain. It briefly discusses a few of the formal approaches to syntax that have figured prominently in computational research and implementation. The fundamental problem of syntax is to characterize the relation between semantic predicate-argument relations and the superficial word and phrase configurations by which a language expresses them. The major task of syntactic theory is to define an explicit notation for writing grammars. This article details a framework called transformational grammar that combines a context-free phrase-structure grammar with another component of transformations that specify how trees of a given form can be transformed into other trees in a systematic way. Finally, it mentions briefly two syntactic systems that are of linguistic and computational interest, namely, generalized phrase structure grammar and tree-adjoining grammars.
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Ezcurdia, Maite. Semantic complexity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198714217.003.0006.

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Neale has presented a bold empirical thesis about noun phrases in natural language, namely that they are either semantically structured restricted quantifiers or semantically unstructured rigidly referring expressions. This chapter aims to undermine this thesis by questioning whether there are any prima facie or general reasons for believing it and for adopting the strategy of explaining seeming counterexamples away. The chapter questions the second disjunct, in particular whether there are any good reasons for thinking that there are no semantically structured or complex referring expressions. It reviews a variety of considerations from reference, rigidity, the intelligibility of sentences with referring expressions, Neale’s own act-syntactic framework, and syntax. It argues that none of these provides good prima facie or general motivation for upholding the thesis. It claims that referring expressions could be semantically complex and provides some reasons for thinking that complex demonstratives are an example.
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Gutzmann, Daniel. The Grammar of Expressivity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812128.001.0001.

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While the expressive function of natural language has received much attention in recent years, the role grammar plays in the interpretation of expressive items has mainly been neglected in the semantic and pragmatic literature. On the other hand, while there have been syntactic studies of some expressive phenomena they do not explicitly connect to recent developments in semantics. This book bridges this gap, showing that semantics and pragmatics alone cannot capture all grammatical particularities of expressive items and that expressivity has strong syntactic reflexes that interact with the semantic interpretation and account for the mismatches between the syntax and semantics of these phenomena. The main thesis he argues for—the hypothesis of expressive syntax—is that expressivity is a syntactic feature, on a par with other established syntactic features like tense or gender. Evidence for this claim is drawn from three detailed case studies of expressive phenomena: expressive adjectives, expressive intensifiers, and expressive vocatives. These expressions exhibit some puzzling properties and by developing an account of them employing minimalist approaches to syntactic features and agreement, the author shows that expressivity, as a syntactic feature, can partake in agreement operations, trigger movement, and syntactically be selected for. This not only provides indirect evidence for the hypothesis of expressive syntax and extends the usefulness of operations on syntactic features operation beyond their traditional domains, but also highlights the hidden role grammar may play for phenomena that are often considered to be solely semantic in nature.
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Automatic Semantic Interpretation: A Computer Model of Understanding Natural Language. Foris Pubns USA, 1985.

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Bakel, Jan van. Automatic Semantic Interpretation: A Computer Model of Understanding Natural Language. De Gruyter, Inc., 2019.

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Bakel, Jan Van. Automatic Semantic Interpretation : A Computer Model of Understanding Natural Language. Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1985.

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Universals of Language Today Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Springer, 2008.

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(Editor), J. Ouhalla, and U. Shlonsky (Editor), eds. Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax (STUDIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY Volume 53) (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2002.

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(Editor), J. Ouhalla, and U. Shlonsky (Editor), eds. Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax. Springer, 2002.

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(Editor), A. Alexiadou, G. C. Horrocks (Editor), and Melita Stavrou (Editor), eds. Studies in Greek Syntax (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 1998.

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Neeleman, A., and F. Weerman. Flexible Syntax - A Theory of Case and Arguments (STUDIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY Volume 47) (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2001.

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The Semantic Representation of Natural Language Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014.

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Hu, Xuhui. The syntax and semantics of Chinese resultatives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808466.003.0004.

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This chapter investigates the syntactic derivation of Chinese resultatives. While in English resultatives the [uDiv] feature is valued with the mechanism of feature sharing, in Chinese resultatives it is valued by a verbal C-functor, by nature equivalent to en in flatten. The Chinese V–V resultative compound is a single de-adjectival verb: the first verb is a verbal C-functor and the second one is an adjective. The V–V resultative construction is therefore analyzed as a causative construction involving a de-adjectival verb. This single hypothesis provides a unified account of the seemingly mysterious properties of Chinese resultatives as well as the differences from English resultatives. This account is based on a general hypothesis of Synchronic Grammaticalization: in an analytical language like Chinese where there is only a very limited array of functional items, lexical items are selected to serve as functional items to meet the universal requirement of feature valuation.
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(Editor), David Adger, Cécile de Cat (Editor), and George Tsoulas (Editor), eds. Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2004.

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Simpson, J. Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax: A Lexicalist Approach (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2007.

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Arad, Maya. Roots and Patterns: Hebrew Morpho-syntax (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2007.

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Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics (STUDIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY Volume 49) (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 1999.

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Arche, María J., Antonio Fábregas, and Rafael Marín, eds. The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829850.001.0001.

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Copular verbs and copular sentences have been for many years a central issue in the theoretical discussions about the nature of (light) verbs and other grammatical categories, the ingredients of predication structures, the properties of nominal categories, agreement, and the interaction between syntax and semantics at the level of clause structure. The current research on copulas has gone beyond the investigation of what kind of objects they are, and has implications for the nature of agreement and other formal processes in syntax and morphology, as well as proposals about the types of structure building operations available in natural languages, the types of features that lexical selection is sensitive to, and the possibility that languages have access to semantically-empty elements required for the satisfaction of purely formal properties. The twelve works included in this volume illustrate the state of the art of these discussions through the analysis of detailed patterns of data from a variety of languages.
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(Editor), Höskuldur Thräinsson, Samuel David Epstein (Editor), and Steve Peter (Editor), eds. Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax Volume II (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 1996.

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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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(Editor), Höskuldur Thräinsson, Samuel David Epstein (Editor), and Steve Peter (Editor), eds. Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax Volume II (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2001.

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Event Structure and the Left Periphery: Studies on Hungarian (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2006.

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Kiss, Katalin É. Event Structure and the Left Periphery: Studies on Hungarian (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2007.

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(Editor), Kyle Johnson, and I. G. Roberts (Editor), eds. Beyond Principles and Parameters: Essays in Memory of Osvaldo Jaeggli (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 1998.

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Beyond Principles and Parameters: Essays in Memory of Osvaldo Jaeggli (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 1998.

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(Editor), William D. Davies, and Stanley Dubinsky (Editor), eds. New Horizons in the Analysis of Control and Raising (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2007.

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Cognola, Federica, and Jan Casalicchio, eds. Null Subjects in Generative Grammar. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815853.001.0001.

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This book considers the null-subject phenomenon, whereby some languages lack an overtly realized referential subject in specific contexts. In generative syntax—the approach adopted in this volume—the phenomenon has traditionally been explained in terms of a ‘pro-drop’ parameter with associated cluster properties; more recently, however, it has become clear that pro-drop phenomena do not always correlate with all the initially predicted cluster properties. This volume returns to the centre of the debate surrounding the empirical phenomena associated with null subjects. Experts in the field explore the cluster properties associated with pro-drop; the types of null category involved in null-subject phenomena and their identification; and the typology of null-subject languages, with a special focus on partial null-subject languages. Chapters include both novel empirical data and new theoretical analyses covering the major approaches to null subjects in generative grammar. A wide range of languages are examined, ranging from the most commonly studied in research into null subjects, such as Finnish and Italian, to lesser-studied languages such as Vietnamese and Polish, minority languages such as Cimbrian and Kashubian, and historical varieties such as Old French and Old High German. The research presented also contributes to the understanding of other key syntactic phenomena, such as the nature of control, the role of information structure and semantics in syntax, the mechanisms of language change, and the formalization of language variation.
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Lee, Felicia. Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture: A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2006.

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Zwart, J. W. Morphosyntax of Verb Movement: A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Dutch (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 1996.

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The Logical Approach to Syntax: Foundations, Specifications, and Implementations of Theories of Government and Binding (ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing). The MIT Press, 1993.

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Haeberli, E. Features, Categories and the Syntax of A-Positions: Cross-Linquistic Variation in the Germanic Languages (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2002.

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Haeberli, E. Features, Categories and the Syntax of A-Positions: Cross-Linquistic Variation in the Germanic Languages (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer, 2002.

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Simmons, Keith. Semantic Singularities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791546.001.0001.

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This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes. It argues for a unified solution to the paradoxes generated by the concepts of reference or denotation, predicate extension, and truth. The solution makes two main claims. The first is that our semantic expressions ‘denotes’, ‘extension’, and ‘true’ are context-sensitive. The second, inspired by a brief, tantalizing remark of Gödel’s, is that these expressions are significant everywhere except for certain singularities, in analogy with division by zero. A formal theory of singularities is presented and applied to a wide variety of versions of the definability paradoxes, Russell’s paradox, and the Liar paradox. The book argues that the singularity theory satisfies the following desiderata: it recognizes that the proper setting of the semantic paradoxes is natural language, not regimented formal languages; it minimizes any revision to our semantic concepts; it respects as far as possible Tarski’s intuition that natural languages are universal; it responds adequately to the threat of revenge paradoxes; and it preserves classical logic and semantics. The book examines the consequences of the singularity theory for deflationary views of our semantic concepts, and concludes that if we accept the singularity theory, we must reject deflationism.
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Ball, Derek, and Brian Rabern, eds. The Science of Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739548.001.0001.

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Semantics is the systematic study of linguistic meaning. The past fifty years have seen an explosion of research into the semantics of natural languages. There are now sophisticated theories of phenomena that were not even known to exist mere decades ago. Much of the early work in natural language semantics was accompanied by extensive reflection on the aims of semantic theory, and the form a theory must take to meet those aims. But this meta-theoretical reflection has not kept pace with recent theoretical innovations. The aim of this volume is to re-address these questions concerning the foundations of natural language semantics in light of the current state-of-the-art in semantic theorizing. The volume addresses a range of foundational questions about formal semantics: what is the best methodology for semantic theorizing, and should experimental techniques play a crucial role? How should we understand the use of formal tools such as model theory, and are there better formal alternatives? How should we think about compositionality? What does semantic theory tell us about the language faculty or linguistic competence? What are the advantages of dynamic semantics? How do formal semantic theories relate to philosophical notions of context, content, interpretation, and propositions?
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Yalcin, Seth. Semantics as Model-Based Science. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739548.003.0012.

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This chapter critiques a number of standard ways of understanding the role of the metalanguage in a semantic theory for natural language, including the idea that disquotation plays a nontrivial role in any explanatory natural language semantics. It then proposes that the best way to understand the role of a semantic metalanguage involves recognizing that semantics is a model-based science. The metalanguage of semantics is language for articulating features of the theorist’s model. Models are understood as mediating instruments—idealized structures used to represent select aspects of the world, aspects the theorist is seeking some theoretical understanding of. The aspect of reality we are seeking some understanding of in semantics is a dimension of human linguistic competence—informally, knowledge of meaning.
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Habib, Sandy. The meanings of ‘angel’ in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736721.003.0004.

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This chapter explores the meanings of English angels and its Arabic and Hebrew near-equivalents. Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory, semantic analysis is carried out, and an explication is constructed for each term. The results show that there are similarities and differences between the three concepts. The similarities include, among other things, the categorization of the three non-human beings and their good nature. The differences are manifested mainly in the conceptualization of the hierarchy among these beings, their visual representations/appearances, and relation to people. As the explications are constructed from simple, universal human concepts, they are translatable into any language, and thus are accessible to cultural outsiders.
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Thagard, Paul. Brain-Mind. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190678715.001.0001.

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Minds enable people to perceive, imagine, solve problems, understand, learn, speak, reason, create, and be emotional and conscious. Competing explanations of how the mind works have identified it as soul, computer, brain, dynamical system, or social construction. This book explains minds in terms of interacting mechanisms operating at multiple levels, including the social, mental, neural, and molecular. Brain–Mind presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Unification comes from systematic application of Chris Eliasmith’s powerful new Semantic Pointer Architecture, a highly original synthesis of neural network and symbolic ideas about how the mind works. The book shows the relevance of semantic pointers to a full range of important kinds of mental representations, from sensations and imagery to concepts, rules, analogies, and emotions. Neural mechanisms are used to explain many phenomena concerning consciousness, action, intention, language, creativity, and the self. This book belongs to a trio that includes Mind–Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. They can be read independently, but together they make up a Treatise on Mind and Society that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.
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Stainton, Robert J. Meaning and Reference: Some Chomskian Themes. Edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199552238.003.0036.

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This article introduces three arguments that share a single conclusion: that a comprehensive science of language cannot (and should not try to) describe relations of semantic reference, i.e. word–world relations. Spelling this out, if there is to be a genuine science of linguistic meaning (yielding theoretical insight into underlying realities, aiming for integration with other natural sciences), then a theory of meaning cannot involve assigning external, real-world, objects to names, nor sets of external objects to predicates, nor truth values (or world-bound thoughts) to sentences. Most of the article tries to explain and defend this broad conclusion. The article also presents, in a very limited way, a positive alternative to external-referent semantics for expressions. This alternative has two parts: first, that the meanings of words and sentences are mental instructions, not external things; second, that it is people who refer (and who express thoughts) by using words and sentences, and word/sentence meanings play but a partial role in allowing speakers to talk about the world.
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Martins, Ana Maria, and Adriana Cardoso, eds. Word Order Change. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747307.001.0001.

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This book is a collection of thirteen detailed studies on word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax. An initial chapter contextualizes them and introduces the theme in order to make clear from the onset its relevance and appeal. The sample of languages investigated is diverse and displays significant historical depth. Different branches of the Indo-European family are represented both through classical and living languages, namely: a wide range of Early Indo-European languages (Sanskrit, Greek, Indic, Avestan, Hittite, Tocharian, among others), Romance languages (Latin, Italian, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese), Germanic languages (Dutch, English), and a Celtic language (Irish). Besides, three chapters are dedicated to Hungarian and one chapter deals with Coptic Egyptian. The essays in the book use the tools provided by the generative theory of grammar to investigate the constrained ways in which older linguistic variants give rise to new ones in the course of time, with the aim of contributing insights into the properties of natural language. Two ingredients of the generative framework make it especially appropriate to deal with word order phenomena, namely movement as a syntactic operation (embedded in the theory of grammar) and a richly articulated clausal architecture composed with lexical but also abstract functional categories. This collective volume is unique in the way it provides through in-depth language-internal or comparative studies new perspectives on the relation between word order change and syntactic movement, under the constraints imposed by particular instantiations of clausal architecture.
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