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185. Deriving four generalizations about nominals in three classifier languagesTrang Phan, Tue Trinh, Hung Phan, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: This note presents a set of facts concerning nominal structures in Bahnar, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. It proposes an account of these facts which reduces them to cross-linguistic differences with respect to the availability of particular syntactic configurations involving the bare nouns and its extended projection. These differences, in turn, are derived from cross linguistic variations with respect to the availability of items in the functional lexicon.
Keywords: classifiers, demonstratives, argumenthood, definiteness
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186. Splitting atoms in natural languageAndreas Haida, Tue Trinh, 2021, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: The classic Fregean analysis of numerical statements runs into problems with sentences containing non-integers such as John read 2.5 novels, since it takes such statements to specify the cardinality of a set which by definition must be a natural number. We propose a semantics for numeral phrases which allows us to count mereological subparts of objects in such a way as to predict several robust linguistic intuitions about these sentences. We also identify a number of open questions which the proposal fails to address and hence must be left to future research.
Keywords: numerals, non-intergers, mereology
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187. Three ways of referring to discourse participants in VietnameseTue Trinh, 2022, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: This note discusses the fact that in Vietnamese, speakers and hearers can refer to themselves by pronouns, proper names, or relational nouns. This makes Vietnamese different from English and many other languages which require discourse participants to refer to themselves by pronouns only. We sketch an account for this difference which involves a syntactically represented speech act level, a parameterization of Rule I with respect to its candidate set, and a well-formedness principle concerning the structure of bound nominals.
Keywords: pronouns, names, binding, speech acts
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189. On the Rise and Fall of DeclarativesTue Trinh, Luka Crnič, 2011, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: This paper argues for a new way of thinking about semantic and pragmatic effects of particular sentence intonation patterns. The main focus of the paper is on the so-called rising declaratives, i.e. sentences that have the surface structure of a declarative sentence but are pronounced with a rising pitch contour. Rising declaratives differ from both declaratives with a falling pitch contour and questions in their pragmatic effect. Our goal is to account for this difference. We propose that rising intonation contour is syntactically realized. Its semantic import is to determine the resolution of a variable in the speech act projection, i.e. rising intonation operates on speech acts. The pragmatic effects associated with rising declaratives are shown to follow from this minimal assumption and the independently motivated tenets of speech act theory.
Keywords: rising declaratives, biased questions
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190. Nominal reference in two classifier languagesTue Trinh, 2011, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: In this paper, we first present observations that have been made concerning the distribution and interpretation of nominals in Mandarin Chinese and propose an account for them. We will then contrast Mandarin Chinese with Vietnamese, and show that differences with respect to the syntax and semantics of noun phrases between these two languages can be reduced to the fact that they differ minimally in lexical resource. Implications of the analysis for a theory of semantic variation are also discussed.
Keywords: classifiers, nominals, Vietnamese, Chinese
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