The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements organized into ...

In studying the mechanisms that create portmanteaux, it is often difficult to distinguish structural constituency from linear adjacency. This paper examines the Irish verbal complex, the particular ...

In syntactic theory, syntactic heads are the major mediators between syntax and semantics: the problem of describing the meaning of a complex expression is reduced to the problem of describing what ...

Glue semantics is a theory of the syntax-semantics interface according to which the syntactic structure of a sentence produces premises in a fragment of linear logic, and the semantic interpretation(s ...

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