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Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics: Selected Papers from the Colloque de Syntaxe et de Semantique de Paris (CSSP 1995) by Verlag Peter Lang (Paperback, 1997)

The present volume is a collection of studies devoted to major issues in contemporary syntax and semantics: in particular, argument structure, ellipsis, negation and scope. The papers included, which represent a number of formally rigorous contemporary frameworks, bring out new facts from a large variety of languages as well as vel solutions to a broad range of analytic puzzles. Part One illustrates the major ways in which argument structure is used and conceptualized. Part Two provides new perspectives on ellipsis, applying concepts and tools developed for focus, questions and quantification. Part Three introduces a number of vel proposals for the representation of scope, considerably enlarging the empirical domain of scope relations. These studies are unusual in that they combine an enthusiasm for detailed syntactic and semantic data and a serious concern for formal rigor. They discuss data from a wide variety of languages, including Japanese, Bulgarian, French, Greek, English, Italian, German, Hungarian, Inuit and Western Austronesian languages. The main themes of the book include negation, argument structure, ellipsis, indefinites, telicity, presuppositions, modality and quantification.

Place of Publication
Pieterlen
Edited by
Francis Corblin, Etc.
First Published
1997
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
The Editors: Francis Corblin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Rennes 2. Daniele Godard and Jean-Marie Marandin are researchers at the University of Paris 7. The editors work in the C.N.R.S. Research Group Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, University of Paris 7.
Date of Publication
01/10/1997
Country of Publication
Switzerland

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