202 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
202 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
202 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
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This book explores the cognitive constraints and principles of variation in structures of linguistic meaning across languages. It unifies cognitive-semantic representations with formal-semantic representations to make a unique contribution to the study of typological generalizations and universals in natural language semantics. This unified approach not only helps reveal why semantic structures... Read more
Preface viii
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction 1
2 Semantic Structures and Linguistic Universals 5
3 Towards a Unified Representation of Linguistic Meanings 29
4 Semantic Variation from Semantic Representations: Negation, Negative Polarity and Negative Concord 67
5 Semantic Variation from Semantic Representations: Modality, Tense and Plurality 94
6 Implications for Language Typology and Cognition 136
7 Concluding Remarks 183
Language Index 187
Subject Index 189
Biography
Prakash Mondal is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
