9.1291, Books: Syntax & Semantics

Fri Sep 18 00:43:31 UTC 1998

LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1291. Fri Sep 18 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1291, Books: Syntax & Semantics

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1)
Date:  Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:01:05 -0700
From:  Maureen Burke <mburke at tavel.stanford.edu>
Subject:  new books: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

2)
Date:  Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:22:25 -0700
From:  Maureen Burke <mburke at tavel.stanford.edu>
Subject:  new books: Comparative and General Grammar, Syntax and Semantics

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:01:05 -0700
From:  Maureen Burke <mburke at tavel.stanford.edu>
Subject:  new books: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Balari, Sergio (Universitat Auto'noma de Barcelona) and Dini, Luca (Centro
per Elaborazione del Linguaggio e dell'Informazione (CELI) and Scuola
Normale Superiore);  ROMANCE IN HPSG; ISBN: 1-57586-082-1 (paper),
1-57586-083-X (cloth); 408 pp. CSLI Publications 1998:
http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications/
email: pubs at roslin.stanford.edu.

	This volume addresses several aspects of the syntax and semantics
of Romance Languages from the constraint-based, lexicalist perspective of
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG).
	The papers in this volume not only broaden the empirical coverage
of HPSG, but also discuss the significant implications of Romance languages
for the development of HPSG theory. Among the critical topics discussed in
this book are: bounded and unbounded dependency constructions, argument
structure, the syntax and semantics of quantification, null complements,
missing object constructions, cliticization, and the syntax and semantics
of nominal expressions.

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Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-4115
Telephone (650) 723-1839
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-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:22:25 -0700
From:  Maureen Burke <mburke at tavel.stanford.edu>
Subject:  new books: Comparative and General Grammar, Syntax and Semantics

Comparative and General Grammar, Syntax and Semantics

Butt, Miriam (University of Konstanz) and Geuder, Wilhelm (University of
Tuebingen); ISBN: 1-57586-110-0 (paper), 1-57586-111-9 (cloth); 366 pp.
CSLI Publications 1998: http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications/
email: pubs at roslin.stanford.edu.

	It is becoming increasingly clear that the classic approach to
linking which accounts for the projection of arguments into the syntax in
terms of thematic roles (and/or some kind of lexical decomposition), has
some serious shortcomings. This volume sets out to explore possible
alternatives, which call into question the assumption that projection is
rigidly determined by fixed lexical entries. Coming from varied
backgrounds, the papers collected here converge on the general hypothesis
that many semantic factors which influence the projection of arguments
should instead be attributed to compositional and combinatorial processes.
Proposals are presented for reassessment of the lexicon-syntax interface
that include models of building up variants of lexical meanings in a
flexible manner, as well as models where much of the putative role of
lexical entries is supplanted by the structural context, in particular by
functional projections.
	Among the topics addressed are questions of argument hierarchies
and adicity of predicates, and the syntax and semantics of argument
alternations in a set of very diverse languages which include English,
Dutch, Scottish Gaelic, Finnish, Hebrew, Kannada, Malay, Greenlandic
Eskimo, and Yaqui.

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CSLI Publications
Ventura Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-4115
Telephone (650) 723-1839
Fax (650) 725-2166
http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications

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Addison Wesley Longman
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Blackwell Publishers
	http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/
Cambridge University Press
	http://www.cup.org/
Edinburgh University Press
	http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
Garland Publishing
	http://www.garlandpub.com/
Holland Academic Graphics (HAG)
	http://www.hag.nl
John Benjamins Publishing Company
	http://www.benjamins.com/
	http://www.benjamins.nl/
Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
	http://www.erlbaum.com/inform.htm
MIT Press (Books Division)
	http://mitpress.mit.edu/books-legacy.tcl
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
	http://broca.mit.edu/mitwpl.web/WPLs.html
Mouton de Gruyter
	http://www.deGruyter.de/hling.html
Oxford University Press
	http://www.oup-usa.org/
Routledge
	http://www.routledge.com/
Summer Institute of Linguistics
	http://www.sil.org/

Other Supporting Publishers:

Anthropological Linguistics
Cascadilla Press:
        http://www.cascadilla.com/
Cassells
CSLI Publications:
	http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications/
Finno-Ugrian Society
	http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj.sus
Francais Practique
	http://www.pratique.fr/
Lodz University, Department of English Language
Pacific Linguistics
Torino, Rosenberge & Sellier
Utrech Institute of Linguistics	

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