MUNICH, Germany — Jianwen Zhu, a professor at the University of Toronto, proposed a new register-transfer level (RTL) abstraction syntax which he claimed can be implemented by a modest extension to ...

The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Nov., 1990), pp. 429-451 (23 pages) Recently several philosophers of science have proposed what has come to be known as the semantic account of ...

In contrastive syntax, the main interests have been different clause and complex sentence structures and syntactic questions within the clauses, such as verbal and adjectival constructions and ...

I argue for a novel model of feature valuation in the CI interface and explore under what circumstances a syntactic feature is semantically interpretable. As the groundwork for the investigation, I ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...