Crossroads Semantics
Computation, experiment and grammar
Editors
As language is a multifaceted phenomenon, the study of language, as long as it is geared at providing a comprehensive picture of it, cannot be restricted to one component or one approach. This applies to the many different components of language as well, including semantics.
If we want to fully understand the phenomenon of language meaning, we must not limit our research to lexical semantics, syntax-induced meaning or pragmatics. In order to enable ourselves to construct a consistent account of meaning, we need to extract relevant information from research done in different frameworks and from different theoretical standpoints.
This volume brings together a number of computational, psycholinguistic as well as theoretical studies, which highlight and illustrate how research done in one subfield of linguistics can be relevant to others.
The articles highlight the different ways in which one can work with different aspects of language meaning.
[Not in series, 210] 2017. viii, 329 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. 1–7
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Chapter 1. Bridging theoretical and experimental linguistic researchBobby Ruijgrok | pp. 9–20
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Data and its use
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Chapter 2. Experimental research: Problems and opportunities in the big-data eraHenk Cremers | pp. 23–37
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Chapter 3. Finding long-distance dependencies in the Lassy CorpusGosse Bouma | pp. 39–56
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Chapter 4. How to compare speed and accuracy of syntactic parsersGertjan van Noord | pp. 57–76
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Chapter 5. Adposition clusters in DutchFrank Van Eynde | pp. 77–92
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Chapter 6. Polarity licensing and intervention by conjunctionJack Hoeksema | pp. 93–106
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Chapter 7. Frequential test of (S)OV as unmarked word order in Dutch and German clauses: A serendipitous corpus-linguistic experimentGerard Kempen and Karin Harbusch | pp. 107–123
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Chapter 8. Kratzer’s effect in the nominal domain: Fake indexicals in Dutch and GermanGertjan Postma | pp. 125–137
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Chapter 9. Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific? The case of gender congruency in Dutch-English bilingualsNiels O. Schiller and Rinus G. Verdonschot | pp. 139–154
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Chapter 10. Prosody of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and GermanVincent J. van Heuven and Constantijn Kaland | pp. 155–176
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Chapter 11. Licensing distributivity: The role of plural morphologyHanna de Vries | pp. 177–189
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Implementation and theory building
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Chapter 12. Extending categorial grammar to phonologyMarc van Oostendorp | pp. 193–205
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Chapter 13. Stacking up for the long way downMarcel den Dikken | pp. 207–225
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Chapter 14. Meaning between algebra and culture: Auto-antonyms in the Ewe verb lexiconFelix K. Ameka | pp. 227–248
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Chapter 15. Whether you like it or not, this is a paper about or notTon van der Wouden and Frans Zwarts | pp. 249–261
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Chapter 16. Between desire and necessity: The complementarity of want and needJohan Rooryck | pp. 263–279
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Chapter 17. Inner aspect and the comparative quantifiersBoban Arsenijević | pp. 281–304
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Chapter 18. The expressive en maar-constructionHans Broekhuis and Norbert Corver | pp. 305–325
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Index
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN016000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics