Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

To construct the sentenceBeethoven like(s) Schubert(ignoring tense^197 ), we unify the indices numbered 3 in (1) with the indice ...

Unifying (2a) with the 9s in (4a) yields the following structure: This is still not well-formed, since the syntax of English req ...

The important thing to see here is that syntactic heads (verbs and nouns) map into conceptual functions (e.g.LIKE, WRITE, BRIDE) ...

earlier practice (Jackendoff 1983; 1990a), notated modification as (8a). The tree notation for conceptual structure might notate ...

A more potent argument that modification cannot be reduced to predicate conjunction is that many modifiers do not modifytheirhos ...

Thelogician's paraphrasethe man such that Beethoven likes himprovides a suggestivemodel:thedesignated individual,him, is in the ...

learned by the child; but the fact that a long-distance dependency in syntax expresses a lambda extraction of a bound variable w ...

occur in lexical semantics. For instance,brotherandsisterexpress the same kinship function but differ in the modifier MALE VS. F ...

one of its internal constituents such as the telic quale. In such a case, the same structural configuration in syntax can corres ...

(16) Sitting in the audience, Nixon was astonished to hear himself sing a foolish aria to Chou En-Lai. Here the reflexive has un ...

What does it mean to say there is such a conventionalized unit in the lexicon? It means that speakers can“abbreviate” their utte ...

end of an ongoing continuous process. Sleeping is a continuous process, sountilbounds it by simple composition. However, a verbt ...

absent fro mthe signal. Again, in this case, the hearer is cued to the need for coercion by the ill-for medness of the simple re ...

Nora spent the afternoon knitting. Rather, in the account of section 6.6, these bits of meaning come from constructionalVP idiom ...

(24)a. A: When does the train leave? B: (At) 6:30. b. A: How do you keep fro mgetting nervous? B: By drinking. Speaker B's utter ...

entities of the sentence.^208 In more standard approaches, the two kinds of organization are conflated into a single formal expr ...

wouldn'tbe very interesting. So consider: what if an index werenotcopied? This seems precisely the proper account of predicate N ...

The notation 5=2 indicates an indexical merger between the individuals described asa carandit. There is, however, a second kind ...

Next, recall that predicate NPs have no index on the referential tier. This predicts that predicate NPs should be possible antec ...

record the active referents in the discourse. A new referent is introduced by adding a new index that is not marked coreferentia ...