LINGUIST List 21.4239 Mon Oct 25 2010 Diss: Semantics/Syntax: Iordachioaia: 'Negative Concord with ...' Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Gianina Iordachioaia , Negative Concord with Negative Quantifiers: A polyadic quantifier approach to Romanian negative concord/Negative Konkordanz mit negativen Quantoren: Eine Analyse negativer Konkordanz im Rumänischen mit polyadischen Quantoren Message 1: Negative Concord with Negative Quantifiers: A polyadic quantifier approach to Romanian negative concord/Negative Konkordanz mit negativen Quantoren: Eine Analyse negativer Konkordanz im Rumänischen mit polyadischen Quantoren Date: 21-Oct-2010 From: Gianina Iordachioaia <gianinaifla.uni-stuttgart.de> Subject: Negative Concord with Negative Quantifiers: A polyadic quantifier approach to Romanian negative concord/Negative Konkordanz mit negativen Quantoren: Eine Analyse negativer Konkordanz im Rumänischen mit polyadischen Quantoren E-mail this message to a friend Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Program: Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2009 Author: Gianina Iordachioaia Dissertation Title: Negative Concord with Negative Quantifiers: A polyadic quantifier approach to Romanian negative concord/Negative Konkordanz mit negativen Quantoren: Eine Analyse negativer Konkordanz im Rumänischen mit polyadischen Quantoren Dissertation URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-48224 Linguistic Field(s): Semantics Syntax Subject Language(s): Romanian (ron) Dissertation Director(s): Fritz Hamm Erhard W. Hinrichs Frank Richter Uwe Mönnich Dissertation Abstract: This dissertation belongs to the linguistic research on negative concord and presents an application to Romanian. It offers a syntax-semantics interface which takes into account the negative semantics of each expression that participates in negative concord. The semantic analysis makes use of Polyadic Quantifiers (Keenan & Westerståhl 1997), which are integrated in Lexical Resource Semantics (LRS, Richter & Sailer 2004) and can thus be employed in a syntax-semantics interface in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG, Pollard & Sag 1994). The first part of the dissertation argues that Romanian n-words are negative quantifiers and that negative concord constructions are best treated as polyadic quantifiers. Next, a compositional grammar with simple type theory and lambda calculus is shown to be too restrictive to accommodate polyadic quantifiers. This result eliminates the possibility to offer a compositional syntax-semantics for negative concord. As a solution, polyadic quantifiers are represented in a higher order language which is embedded in LRS, a platform for underspecified semantics in HPSG. The flexible combinatorics of LRS together with further constraint-based mechanisms available in HPSG enable us to develop a systematic syntax-semantics interface for the core properties of negative concord in Romanian. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.