The Cognitive Variation of Semantic Structures

ISBN-13: 9781032726281 / Twarda / 2024 / 190 str.

Prakash Mondal

Opis

This book explores the cognitive constraints and principles of variation in structures of linguistic meaning across languages.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: Semantic Structures and Linguistic Universals  Chapter 3: Towards a Unified Representation of Linguistic Meanings  Chapter 4: Semantic Variation from Semantic Representations: Negation, Negative Polarity and Negative Concord  Chapter 5: Semantic Variation from Semantic Representations: Modality, Tense and Plurality  Chapter 6: Implications for Language Typology and Cognition  Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Prakash Mondal is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.