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Zusatztext an impressive lineup of papers in formal semantics that are concerned with direct compositionality ... I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the specifics of how, for instance, binding and quantification can be accounted for within syntactically sparse frameworks. Direct Compositionality is rich with innovative, well-argued proposals, and anyone who is concerned with the kinds of constructions that are taken up in this volume will certainly benefit from reading it. Informationen zum Autor Chris Barker is Associate Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He has held positions at a number of universities, including 10 years at UCSD. His 1991 UCSC PhD thesis, Possessive Descriptions, was published in 1995 by CSLI, Stanford. He is the co-founder of semanticsarchive.net, and is co-editor of Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics.Pauline Jacobson is Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. She has also held visiting appointments at Ohio State University and Harvard University. Her books include The Nature of Syntactic Representation, co-edited with G. K. Pullum (Reidel,1982) and The Syntax of Crossing Conference Sentences (Garland, 1980); the latter is the publicaton of her 1977 Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley). She is editor in chief of the journal Linguistics and Philosophy. Klappentext This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality" which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. In the first extended discussion of the hypothesis for twenty years! contributors from both sides of the debate draw on examples from a wide range of languages and discuss the place of direct compositionality in generative grammar. Zusammenfassung This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality" which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. In the first extended discussion of the hypothesis for twenty years, contributors from both sides of the debate draw on examples from a wide range of languages and discuss the place of direct compositionality in generative grammar. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson: Introduction: Direct Compositionality Part I Some Programmatic Issues 2: David Dowty: Compositionality as an Empirical Problem 3: Chris Barker: Direct Compositionality on Demand 4: Chung-chieh Shan: Linguistic Side Effects 5: Yoad Winter: Type Shifting with Semantic Features: a Unified Perspective Part II Case Studies 6: Pauline Jacobson: Direct Compositionality and Variable Free Semantics: the Case of "Principle B" Effects 7: Ivano Caponigro and Daphna Heller: The Non Concealed Nature of Free Relatives: Implications for Connectivity in Specificational Sentences 8: Maribel Romero: Connectivity in a Unified Analysis of Specificational Subjects and Concealed Questions 9: Rajesh Bhatt and Roumyana Pancheva: Degree Quantifiers, Position of Merger Effects with their Restrictors, and Conservativity 10: Yael Sharvit: Two Reconstruction Puzzles Part III New Horizons 11: Maria Bittner: Online Update: Temporal, Modal, and de sa Anaphora in Polysynthetic Discourse 12: Christopher Potts: The Dimensions of Quotation Index ...
