| 2 |
[Class elicitation session on noun subjects (incomplete)] ...
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 6 |
Existential quantification in Tiwa: disjunction and indefinites
|
|
|
|
Abstract:
This dissertation examines the semantics and pragmatics of disjunction and indefinites in Tiwa, an understudied Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. The core focus of the dissertation concerns cross-linguistic variation and its implications for semantic theory. Broadly, I address the extent to which languages encode similar meanings through the same semantic means; what mechanisms are best suited to model those meanings; and how the theory can best model what cross-linguistic variation we do find. Concretely, I provide novel cross-linguistic evidence from phrasal comparatives that disjunction is alternative-denoting, and argue that languages can employ different semantic mechanisms in deriving exceptional wide scope.Tiwa's large system of indefinites and disjunction particles, which are in part morphologically related, provide an ideal subject for exploring the logical connection between disjunction and indefinites (which amount to existential quantification over explicit and non-explicit domains respectively). While cross-linguistic studies of indefinites have seen an increase in recent years, disjunction has not received the same level of attention. In this dissertation, I provide a detailed description of the semantic and pragmatic behavior of Tiwa's various disjunction particles and their related indefinites, which, among other things, explicitly encode scope. Additionally, the dissertation contains a broader sketch of Tiwa grammar as a whole, which provides documentation and formal description of many aspects of the language. This empirical contribution is the result of original fieldwork in Assam, India, over the course of four years.
|
|
Keyword:
disjunction; indefinites; Linguistics; semantics; Tiwa
|
|
URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sv8r1n0
|
|
BASE
|
|
Hide details
|
|
|
| 7 |
Third readings by semantic scope lowering: Prolepsis in Tiwa ...
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 8 |
A new kind of epistemic indefinite
|
|
|
|
In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22; 349-366 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 22 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22; 349-366 ; 2629-6055 (2019)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 9 |
Third readings by semantic scope lowering: Prolepsis in Tiwa
|
|
|
|
In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2019): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23; 329-346 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 23 No 1 (2019): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23; 329-346 ; 2629-6055 (2019)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 10 |
Emily Clem: Agreement, Case, and Switch-reference in Amahuaca
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 11 |
Amalia Skilton: Spatial and Non-spatial Deixis in Cushillococha Ticuna
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 12 |
Lexicalizing disjunction scope
|
|
|
|
In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 4 (2019): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 13:1–13 ; 2473-8689 (2019)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
|
|
