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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"syntax-semantics interface"”.
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The ezafat suffix: The syntax-semantics interface
… methodologies and tools provided by generative syntax to determine the status of Ezafat and to answer a number of questions posed by Ezafat. I hypothesize that Ezafat belongs to a functional category which is base-generated under D and its function is to mark nouns for genitive case. In …
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Event structure and the encoding of arguments : the syntax of the Mandarin and English verb phrase
… but also explicates interactions at the syntax-semantics interface, clarifying the relationship between surface form, syntactic structure, and logical form. A theory of argument structure grounded in independently-motivated syntactic constraints, on the one hand, and the semantic …
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Dynamics of plurality in quantification and anaphora
This dissertation investigates the semantics, logic, and metaphysics of plurality, focusing especially on the issues that arise from the interpretation of different plural readings in sentences containing plural terms like ‘Kerri and Misty’ and ‘three students’. The topic has generated a good deal …
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A generative account of English exclamatives
… are an intriguing case study of the syntax-semantics interface. Despite several attempts to define them and explain their properties, there has not yet been convergence on a general theory of the exclamative sentence type. This thesis aims to unify existing approaches to exclamatives …
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… over L2ers in phonology and core aspects of syntax, which develop before age three, but not in the domains of the lexicon, semantics, inflectional morphology, and syntax-discourse interface (see Montrul, 2012, 2016, for reviews). However, few studies have directly compared proficiency-matched …