Paolo Acquaviva
Biographic Data
| ID | 1497822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Acquaviva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Acquaviva |
| SIGNATURE | ACQUAVIVA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7402-8984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Word meaning
Nouns for visual objects
Linguistic Plurality and the Conceptualization of Part Structure
This chapter examines plurality as a category of natural language, arguing that its fundamental semantic value on nouns is to express the property of having a complex part structure. First, it documents values of plurality that depart from the simple 'more-than-one' reading. Examples from typologically diverse languages show that plural often leads to a conceptualization of lexical nouns as denoting continuous masses, or granular substances, or e…
Morphology and Meaning
The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 9–12 February 2012) relating to this vast field of research. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in the field. It is f…
Morphology and meaning
Distributing roots
One of the merits of the target article is to bring into sharp focus some of the fundamental issues that a syntax-based approach raises about knowledge of language and knowledge of the primitive elements in the various linguistic interfaces. Questions about roots, then, amount to questions on what a syntax-based model of grammar like DM has to say about lexical knowledge. The comments that follow centre on two such issues: the relations between t…
The categories of Modern Irish verbal inflection
This paper sets out to identify the categories underlying Irish verbal inflection and to explain why they have their observed morphological and semantic properties. Assuming that the semantic range of a tense is a function of the whole clause, it derives the tenses of Irish from three syntactic features. Their basic value and position in the clause, along with that of other independently justified formatives, determines the attested range of inte…
Lexical Plurals
This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example, is lexical because it means a plurality of a certain kind - a multiple value, not a set of physical objects like pennies - and knowing this reading is knowing the word. Languages exhibit countless examples of similar word-dependent irregularities in the form an…
Goidelic inherent plurals and the morphosemantics of number
The morphological dimension of polarity licensing
Polarity items must, by definition, fit inside the scope of their licenser; items like any N, in addition, appear to require a c-commanding and overt licenser. It is argued that the relevant restriction refers to precedence, not e-command, and that it is morphological, not syntactic. This implies a morphological dimension of dependence, in addition to the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic ones. The analysis relies on the separation between synta…
Negation and operator dependencies
Lexical plurals and beyond
In sum, each of the four areas represented in this volume brings along original data and novel insights.The data come from different languages and language stages (English, Modern and Medieval French, German, Spanish, Tunisian Arabic, Telugu (Dravidian; India)), and several papers address lexical plurality within a universalist / typological (Acquaviva ; Börstell, Lepic and Belsitzman) or Germanic / Romance comparative framework (Mihatsch
Negation and operator dependencies
Goidelic inherent plurals and the morphosemantics of number
The categories of Modern Irish verbal inflection
This paper sets out to identify the categories underlying Irish verbal inflection and to explain why they have their observed morphological and semantic properties. Assuming that the semantic range of a tense is a function of the whole clause, it derives the tenses of Irish from three syntactic features. Their basic value and position in the clause, along with that of other independently justified formatives, determines the attested range of inte…
Nouns for visual objects
Negation and operator dependencies
The morphological dimension of polarity licensing
Polarity items must, by definition, fit inside the scope of their licenser; items like any N, in addition, appear to require a c-commanding and overt licenser. It is argued that the relevant restriction refers to precedence, not e-command, and that it is morphological, not syntactic. This implies a morphological dimension of dependence, in addition to the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic ones. The analysis relies on the separation between synta…
Goidelic inherent plurals and the morphosemantics of number
Lexical Plurals
This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example, is lexical because it means a plurality of a certain kind - a multiple value, not a set of physical objects like pennies - and knowing this reading is knowing the word. Languages exhibit countless examples of similar word-dependent irregularities in the form an…
Morphology and Meaning
The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 9–12 February 2012) relating to this vast field of research. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in the field. It is f…
Morphology and meaning
Distributing roots
One of the merits of the target article is to bring into sharp focus some of the fundamental issues that a syntax-based approach raises about knowledge of language and knowledge of the primitive elements in the various linguistic interfaces. Questions about roots, then, amount to questions on what a syntax-based model of grammar like DM has to say about lexical knowledge. The comments that follow centre on two such issues: the relations between t…
The categories of Modern Irish verbal inflection
This paper sets out to identify the categories underlying Irish verbal inflection and to explain why they have their observed morphological and semantic properties. Assuming that the semantic range of a tense is a function of the whole clause, it derives the tenses of Irish from three syntactic features. Their basic value and position in the clause, along with that of other independently justified formatives, determines the attested range of inte…
Linguistic Plurality and the Conceptualization of Part Structure
This chapter examines plurality as a category of natural language, arguing that its fundamental semantic value on nouns is to express the property of having a complex part structure. First, it documents values of plurality that depart from the simple 'more-than-one' reading. Examples from typologically diverse languages show that plural often leads to a conceptualization of lexical nouns as denoting continuous masses, or granular substances, or e…
Nouns for visual objects
Word meaning
Lexical plurals and beyond
In sum, each of the four areas represented in this volume brings along original data and novel insights.The data come from different languages and language stages (English, Modern and Medieval French, German, Spanish, Tunisian Arabic, Telugu (Dravidian; India)), and several papers address lexical plurality within a universalist / typological (Acquaviva ; Börstell, Lepic and Belsitzman) or Germanic / Romance comparative framework (Mihatsch
Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Noun (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Grammar (3 works)