The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

In his paper 'Gesture Projection and Cosuppositions,' Philippe Schlenker argues that co-verbal gestures convey not at-issue content by default and in particular, that they trigger conditional ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A type (1² ,1) quantifier F is symmetric iff F(X, X) (Y) = F(Y, Y) (X). It is shown that quantifiers denoted by irreducible binary determiners ...

Semantics are important. They tell us what something means. Without semantics you just have a jumble of syntax. The better defined the semantics are, the less likely something is to be mis-interpreted ...