Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to examine whether the complete (re-)activation interface domains in heritage language (HL) possible or interfaces are likely preserve features typical for HL even after many years residing country origin. Design/methodology/approach: We present group analysis direct object marking Turkish, which a morphology-syntax-pragma...

Developers of current agent communication languages (ACLs) have exploited the parallels between agent communication and human communication in developing the syntax and semantics of their languages. In this paper we extend the comparison of agent communication language to natural language by proposing an ACL pragmatics. Just as in natural language, the pragmatics of an ACL is the relationship b...

Perhaps the most famous sentence in linguistics is Noam Chomsky’s “colorless green ideas sleep furiously,” illustrating that an English utterance might be perfectly wellformed syntactically but semantically meaningless (or at least deeply problematic). This sentence helped inaugurate a renewed focus on syntax as a core factor in language [1] — a focus at variance with linguistic practice at the...

The findings from a number of recent studies indicate that, even in cases of successful bilingual first language acquisition, the possibility remains of a certain degree of crosslinguistic influence when the choice between syntactic options is affected by discourse pragmatics. In this study we focussed on the use of referring expressions, prime candidates to test the interaction between syntax ...

Minimizers are widely acknowledged cross-linguistically to denote a minimal quantity, extent or degree. With respect minimizers in Mandarin Chinese, Shyu (Linguistics 54:1355–1395, 2016) claims that their so-called negative polarity is purely syntactically determined and facilitated by the lian…dou (‘including…all’) EVEN construction. Within framework of Dynamic Syntax (Kempson et al., syntax: ...

The notion of context is indispensable in discussions of meaning, but the word context has often been used in conflicting senses. In logic, the first representation of context as a formal object was by the philosopher C. S. Peirce; but for nearly eighty years, his treatment was unknown outside a small group of Peirce aficionados. In the early 1980s, three new theories included related notions o...

Graphics count among the oldest and newest forms of communication. Maps, for example, have been drawn in the sand or incised in stone or imprinted in clay for millennia. Maps now appear on PDAs or are downloaded from websites or are updated in car navigation systems. Ancient maps and modern ones, maps produced by professionals and those created by novices, by children and by adults, share many ...

What is an interface? Talk of interfaces arises when one is confronted with some boundary phenomenon that sits at a point of contact between two domains. In my area of study, namely syntax, people talk about the “syntax-phonology interface”, the “syntax-morphology interface”, or the “syntax-semantics interface”. So an interface can be understood as a borderline between two domains. This metapho...

dimensions, notably, causality. Semantics, Syntax and Pragmatics of Graphics 149 To understand the role of arrows in mechanical diagrams, Heiser and I (2002) asked participants to write descriptions of diagrams. Each participant described a single diagram, either of a bicycle pump or a car brake or a pulley system, either with arrows indicating the operation of the device or without. When parti...