Formal Models in the Study of Language: Applications in Interdisciplinary Contexts

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Formal Models in the Study of Language: Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
A Feature-Based Account of Weak Islands....Pages 11-32
On the Syntax and Pragmatics of Some Clause-Peripheral Positions....Pages 33-48
Two Challenges for ‘Neo-Sassurean’ Approaches to Morphosyntax....Pages 49-64
Some Notes on Floating Quantifiers....Pages 65-82
A Pragmatic and Philosophical Examination of Everett’s Claims About Pirahã....Pages 83-96
A Perspective-Based Account of the Imperfective Paradox....Pages 97-121
Spatial Deictic Expression in Serbian Ovde, Tamo, Tu; A New Approach....Pages 123-142
The Singular Square: Contrariety and Double Negation from Aristotle to Homer....Pages 143-179
Connectives: Order, Causality and Beyond....Pages 181-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Irony, Hyperbole, Jokes and Banter....Pages 201-219
Context in Relevance Theory....Pages 221-242
Sequential Structure of Discourse Segments Shaped by the Interplay of Recipient Design or Salience....Pages 243-260
She Said You Said I Saw It with My Own Eyes: A Pragmatic Account of Commitment....Pages 261-279
Why French Modal Verbs Are not Polysemous, and Other Considerations on Conceptual and Procedural Meanings....Pages 281-296
Building and Interpreting Ad Hoc Categories: A Linguistic Analysis....Pages 297-326
Grammar and Theory of Mind in Autism....Pages 327-337
The Place of Human Language in the Animal World....Pages 339-351
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
Temporal Coherence in Discourse: Theory and Application for Machine Translation....Pages 355-373
Discourse Connectives: Theoretical Models and Empirical Validations in Humans and Computers....Pages 375-390
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
The Interface Between Semantics and Discourse Functions: Exploring the Adjective Possibile in a Corpus of Italian Financial News....Pages 391-413
What Is Pretty Cannot Be Beautiful? A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Aesthetics of Nature....Pages 415-430
When English Meets French: A Case Study in Comparative Diachronic Syntax....Pages 431-450
Some Recent Results on Cross-Linguistic, Corpus-Based Quantitative Modelling of Word Order and Aspect....Pages 451-464
Parsing Language-Specific Constructions: The Case of French Pronominal Clitics....Pages 465-475