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Polarity sensitivity as (non)veridical dependency
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ISBN: 9786613234162 9027282285 1283234165 9789027282286 1556199074 9781556199073 9027227446 9789027227447 Year: 1998 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klima's seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward entailment: (non)veridicality. The leading idea is that the various polarity phenomena observed in language are manifestations of the dependency of certain expessions, i.e. polarity items, to the (non)veridicality of the context of appearance. Dependencies to negation or downward entailment emerge as subca


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The Landscape of Polarity Items
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Groningen : Rijksuniversiteit Groningen,

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Quantification, definiteness, and nominalization
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ISBN: 9786611998738 1281998737 0191562017 9780191562013 0199541086 9780199541089 0199541094 9780199541096 1383044848 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This text addresses developments in the study of quantifier phrases, nominalizations, and the linking definite determiner. It presents ideas at the syntax-morphology, syntax-semantics, and lexicon-morphology interfaces and advances understanding of how quantification, definiteness, and nominalizations are encoded in grammar.


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Truth and veridicality in grammar and thought : mood, modality, and propositional attitudes
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ISBN: 9780226763200 9780226763347 9780226763484 022676348X Year: 2021 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press

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Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The construction of such subjective representations is known as veridicality, and in this book Anastasia Giannakidou and Alda Mari deftly address the interaction between truth and veridicality in the grammatical phenomena of mood choice: the indicative and subjunctive choice in the complements of modal expressions and propositional attitude verbs. Combining several strands of analysis--formal linguistic semantics, syntactic theory, modal logic, and philosophy of language--Giannakidou and Mari's theory not only enriches the analysis of linguistic modality, but also offers a unified perspective of modals and propositional attitudes. Their synthesis covers mood, modality, and attitude verbs in Greek and Romance languages, while also offering broader applications for languages lacking systematic mood distinction, such as English. Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought promises to shape longstanding conversations in formal semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, among other areas of linguistics.


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The landscape of polarity items

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The landscape of polarity items : Thèse = thesis
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Groningen Rijksuniversiteit

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The nominal structure in Slavic and beyond
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ISBN: 1614512795 9781614512790 9781614513889 1614513880 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton,

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The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.


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Mood, aspect, modality revisited : new answers to old questions
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ISBN: 9780226363523 9780226363660 022636352X 022636366X Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press

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Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with an intensely growing body of crosslinguistic studies, have revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it's time to revisit our conventional assumptions, and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as "subjunctive," "imperative," "future," and "modality" truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research that demonstrates that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, contributors in this volume seek out to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.


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Tense across Languages
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ISBN: 9783110267020 9783110266115 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin ;; Boston De Gruyter

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Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
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ISBN: 1282784099 9786612784095 3110227770 3110227762 9783110227772 9783110227765 9783110227765 9781282784093 6612784091 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introduction, the editors survey the field and map out the relevant issues and positions.

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