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Situations and Syntactic Structures

Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English

By: Gillian Catriona Ramchand

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Situations and Syntactic Structures

Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English

By: Gillian Catriona Ramchand

A new theory of the syntax-semantics interface that relies on hierarchical orderings in language, with the English auxiliary system as its empirical ground. Research in syntax has found that there is a hierarchical ordering of projections within the verb phrase across languages (although researchers differ with respect to how fine grained they assume the hierarchy to be). In Situations and Syntactic Structures, Gillian Ramchand explores the hierarchy of the verb phrase from a semantic perspective, attempting to derive it from semantically sorted zones in the compositional semantics. The empirical ground is the auxiliary ordering found in the grammar of English. The “situation” in the title refers to the semanticists' notion of eventuality that is the central element of the ontology of the formal semantics of verbal meaning. Ramchand discusses the semantic notion of situations in relation to the hierarchical ordering evidenced in syntactic structures and tries to bridge semantic and syntactic ontologies. She proposes and formalizes a new theory of semantic zones, and presents an explicitly semantic and morphological analysis of all the auxiliary constructions of English that derive their rigid order of composition without recourse to lexical item–specific ordering statements.

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MIT Press

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Situations and Syntactic Structures

Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English

By: Gillian Catriona Ramchand

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Aspect and Predication

The Semantics of Argument Structure

By: Gillian Ramchand

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Aspect and Predication

The Semantics of Argument Structure

By: Gillian Ramchand

This book investigates the systematic correspondences between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation in the domain of predicate-argument relationships. It takes as its starting point the striking effects of nominal argument interpretation on aspectual semantics, pursuing the intuition that these effects are not quirky or exceptional, but are in fact the most visible reflexes of a more pervasive and systematic interaction between the aspectual event structure of a predicate and its arguments. The Scottish Gaelic language is the empirical base of the investigation, as it exhibits a set of predicational structures which interact in a highly visible way with its aspectual system. The book provides a detailed working out of a semantic system of argument classification which moves away from lexically-driven thematic roles in the traditional sense and towards a more constrained, syntactically motivated, set of primitives.

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Oxford University Press

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0198236514

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Aspect and Predication

The Semantics of Argument Structure

By: Gillian Ramchand

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Situations and Syntactic Structures

Situations and Syntactic Structures

Situations and Syntactic Structures

Situations and Syntactic Structures

Aspect and Predication

Aspect and Predication

Aspect and Predication

Aspect and Predication

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