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Logical Structure and Linguistic Structure

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. C.-T. James Huang

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, USA

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  2. Robert May

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 40)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Bound and Referential Pronouns

    • Joseph Aoun, Norbert Hornstein
    Pages 1-23

  3. Logical Form and Barriers in Navajo

    • Andrew Barss, Ken Hale, Ellavina Tsosie Perkins, Margaret Speas
    Pages 25-47

  4. Towards a Modular Theory of Coreference

    • Robin Clark
    Pages 49-78

  5. Head Government in LF-Representations

    • Osvaldo A. Jaeggli
    Pages 79-109

  6. Logical Structure in Syntactic Structure: The Case of Hungarian

    • Katalin É. Kiss
    Pages 111-147

  7. In Defense of the Correspondence Hypothesis: Island Effects and Parasitic Constructions in Logical Form

    • Giuseppe Longobardi
    Pages 149-196

  8. Construing WH

    • Taisuke Nishigauchi
    Pages 197-231

  9. Two Properties of Clitics in Clitic-Doubled Constructions

    • Margarita Suñer
    Pages 233-251

  10. LF Movement in Iraqi Arabic

    • Wafaa Abdel-Faheem Batran Wahba
    Pages 253-276

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 277-287
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In comparative syntax a general approach has been pursued over the past decade predicated on the notion that Universal Grammar allows of open parameters, and that part of the job of linguistic theory is to specify what values these parameters may have, and how they may be set, given primary linguistic data, to determine the grammars of particu­ lar languages. The papers presented in this volume are also concerned with language variation understood in this way. Their goals, however, do not strictly fall under the rubric of comparative syntax, but form part of what is more properly thought of as a comparative semantics. Semantics, in its broadest sense, is concerned with how linguistic structures are associated with their truth-conditions. A comparative semantics, therefore, is concerned with whether this association can vary from language to language, and if so, what is the cause of this variation. Taking comparative semantics in this way places certain inherent limitations on the search for the sources of variability. This is because the semantic notion of truth is universal, and does not vary from language to language: Sentences either do or do not accurately characterize what they purport to describe. ! The source of semantic variability, therefore, must be somehow located in the way a language is structured.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, USA

    C.-T. James Huang, Robert May

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Logical Structure and Linguistic Structure

  • Book Subtitle: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

  • Editors: C.-T. James Huang, Robert May

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3472-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0914-7Published: 30 June 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1636-7Published: 29 February 1992

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3472-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 287

  • Topics: Semantics, Syntax

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