Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Dedication; 2. Introduction; 3. Chapter 1. Bridging theoretical and experimental linguistic research (by Ruijgrok, Bobby); 4. Data and its use; 5. Chapter 2. Experimental research: Problems and opportunities in the big-data era (by Cremers, Henk); 6. Chapter 3. Finding long-distance dependencies in the Lassy Corpus (by Bouma, Gosse); 7. Chapter 4. How to compare speed and accuracy of syntactic parsers (by Noord, Gertjan van); 8. Chapter 5. Adposition clusters in Dutch (by Van Eynde, Frank); 9. Chapter 6. Polarity licensing and intervention by conjunction (by Hoeksema, Jack); 10. Chapter 7. Frequential test of (S)OV as unmarked word order in Dutch and German clauses: A serendipitous corpus-linguistic experiment (by Kempen, Gerard); 11. Chapter 8. Kratzer's effect in the nominal domain: Fake indexicals in Dutch and German (by Postma, Gertjan); 12. Chapter 9. Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific?: The case of gender congruency in Dutch-English bilinguals (by Schiller, Niels O.); 13. Chapter 10. Prosody of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German (by Heuven, Vincent J. van); 14. Chapter 11. Licensing distributivity: The role of plural morphology (by de Vries, Hanna); 15. Implementation and theory building; 16. Chapter 12. Extending categorial grammar to phonology (by Oostendorp, Marc van); 17. Chapter 13. Stacking up for the long way down (by Dikken, Marcel den); 18. Chapter 14. Meaning between algebra and culture: Auto-antonyms in the Ewe verb lexicon (by Ameka, Felix K.); 19. Chapter 15. Whether you like it or not, this is a paper about or not (by Wouden, Ton van der); 20. Chapter 16. Between desire and necessity: The complementarity of want and need (by Rooryck, Johan); 21. Chapter 17. Inner aspect and the comparative quantifiers (by Arsenijevic, Boban); 22. Chapter 18. The expressive en maar-construction (by Broekhuis, Hans); 23. Index
