The Signs of Determination
Constraint-Based Modelling Across Languages
©2007
Thesis
324 Pages
Series:
Sabest. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Sprach- und Translationswissenschaft, Volume 16
Summary
This study presents a comprehensive treatment of determination, based on English, Italian and other Germanic or Romance languages. Determiners are identified as those dependents of a nominal head that determine the type of reference for the Noun Phrase, covering articles as well as demonstrative, possessive, quantitative, cardinal and ordinal determiners. The work also accounts for their absence with self-determining nominals, like proper names and pronouns. The author’s approach is sign-based, as syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of words or phrases are treated in parallel by a grammar with logical constraints. In particular, the Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) originally proposed by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag is revised adopting a notion of ‘functor’ which proves ideal for all sorts of determiners.
Details
- Pages
- 324
- Publication Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631565100
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Computational linguistics Determination (Linguistik) Nominalphrase Unifikationsgrammatik Determiners Quantification Generative grammar Logical semantics
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. 324 pp.
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