LINGUIST List 5.352

Fri 25 Mar 1994

Books: Syntax, Semantics

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    SYNTAX

    Tateishi, Koichi. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); The Syntax of "Subjects," Pb. xiii + 339 pp., Ph. D. diss., 1991. $16 (+ S/H). Graduate Linguistics Student Association (GLSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Three questions are addressed: (i) What is the subject in Japanese? (ii) What is the topic in syntax? (iii) Where is the theta-marked external argument in the syntax? For further information, contact glsalinguist.umass.edu.

    Osvaldo Jaeggli & Ken Safir: THE NULL SUBJECT PARAMETER. This paperback reprint contains a collection of articles exemplifies one of the most exciting developments in recent syntactic theory, namely, the ``principles and parameters'' approach to linguistic typology. The articles examine the nature of the most discussed of all such parameters, the `Null Subject Parameter' (also known as the ``PRO-drop Parameter''), as it appears (or fails to appear) in a wide variety of natural languages. 320 pp. 1-55608-087-5. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Email vander Lindenwkap.nl.

    SEMANTICS

    Schwarzschild, Roger. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); On the Meaning of Definite Plural Noun Phrases, Pb. xi + 213 pp., Ph. D. diss., 1991. $16 (+ S/H). Graduate Linguistics Student Association (GLSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Do multiply plural NPs ("the boys and the girls") differ semantically from simply plural NPs ("John and Mary" or "the boys")? The "union theory" and the "sets theory" are contrasted in their answer to this question. For further information, contact glsalinguist.umass.edu.

    Wilkinson, Karina. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Studies in the Semantics of Generic Noun Phrases, Pb. x + 154 pp., Ph. D. diss., 1991. $16 (+ S/H). Graduate Linguistics Student Association (GLSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This dissertation is concerned with the representation of generic NPs. Topics discussed: the semantics of bare plurals, the analysis of NPs that contain common nouns such as 'kind,' 'sort,' and 'type.' For further information, contact glsalinguist.umass.edu.