Nicholas Asher
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicholas Asher plays a role.
2012 3. Aspectual coercions in content composition Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 55–81 | Article
This chapter investigates the encoding of temporal information in aspect, and how that information may shift based on contextual factors. Analyzing these shifts leads to a more complex view as to how temporal information in a sentence or a discourse results from meaning composition than standardly… read more
2009 Appraisal of Opinion Expressions in Discourse Actes du «27e colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire» (L'Aquila, 10-13 septembre 2008). Première partie, De Gioia, Michele (dir.), pp. 279–292 | Article
We present an analysis of opinion in texts based on a detailed semantic analysis of a wide class of expressions. We propose a new annotation schema for a deep contextual opinion analysis using discourse relations. We analyze the distribution of our categories in three different types of online… read more
2008 2. Troubles on right frontier Constraints in Discourse, Benz, Anton and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 29–52 | Article
2007 A large view of linguistic content Pragmatic Interfaces, Saussure, Louis de and Peter J. Schulz (eds.), pp. 17–39 | Article
This essay lays out a view of linguistic content in which discourse context plays an essential role. It provides a role for sentential content by using underspecification but argues that discourse level phenomena are essential not only to determining content but even grammaticality judgments in… read more
2007 Objects, locations and complex types. The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition, Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu (eds.), pp. 337–361 | Article
This paper investigates certain puzzling predications about locations and physical objects. I argue first that locations and physical objects are distinct types of things. Locations and physical objects have different individuation conditions. So this should entail that nothing is both a location… read more
2003 Imperatives in dialogue Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium, Kühnlein, Peter, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article