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Control and Restructuring
This book uses data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to develop a new theory of control structures that relates them to restructuring and the semantics of the embedding verb. The theory has implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.
Attitude Reports
A critical survey of key issues in the analysis of propositional attitude reports, a central topic in natural language semantics.
Generative Perspectives on Degrees
The volume collects papers by leading semanticists, syntacticians, and morphologists working on the notion of degree. It aims at deepening our understanding of (i) the internal and external syntax of the standard clause; (ii) the internal morphological structure of the comparative marker (e.g. -er in English); (iii) different semantic implementations of the notion of degree, (iv) the syntactic status and semantic contribution of standard markers, and (v) the distinction between phrasal and clausal comparatives and their interaction with the process of comparative deletion. The authors are raising a number of fundamental questions related to the nature of degrees and the way they are encoded ...
Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
The major aim of this volume is to investigate infinitival structures from a diachronic point of view and, simultaneously, to embed the diachronic findings into the ongoing theoretical discussion on non-finite clauses in general. All contributions subscribe to a dynamic approach to infinitival clauses by investigating their origin, development and loss in miscellaneous patterns and across different languages.
African linguistics across the disciplines
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its graduates on the faculties of many other universities. Research on African linguistics at IU has covered some of the major language groups spoken on the African continent. Carleton Hodge’s work on Ancient Egyptian and Hausa, Paul Newman’s work on Hausa and Chadic languages, and Roxanna Ma Newman’s work on Hausa language structure and pedagogy have been some of the most important studies on Afro-Asiatic linguistics. With respect to Ni...
Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks
This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity. It brings together work from different linguistic frameworks and sheds light on the interaction between linguistic expressions and the 'expressive dimension' of language.
Control and Restructuring
Thomas Grano uses data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to develop a new theory of control structures that relates them to restructuring and the semantics of the embedding verb. The theory has implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.
Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers
This volume examines the meaning of scalar modifiers - expressions such as more than, a bit, and much - from the standpoint of the semantics-pragmatics interface. It draws on data from Japanese and a range of other languages to explore the information expressed by these modifiers at both the semantic and the pragmatic level.
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