Carlota S Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlota S Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlota S |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Time in Navajo: Direct and Indirect Interpretation
This article discusses the temporal interpretation of Navajo sentences. Navajo has linguistic forms that give temporal information: future tense, past and future particles, and temporal adverbials. These forms are optional, so that many sentences contain no direct temporal information. In such cases, aspectual information gives pragmatic cues to the temporal location of the situation expressed. The key factor is boundedness: in the default case, …
Tense and temporal interpretation
Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
This article presents an account of temporal understanding in Mandarin Chinese. Aspectual, lexical, and adverbial information and pragmatic principles all contribute to the interpretation of temporal location. Aspectual viewpoint and situation type give information in the absence of explicit temporal forms. The main, default pattern of interpretation is deictic. The pragmatic principles are the bounded event constraint, the simplicity principle o…
The Parameter of Aspect
Aspectual Categories in Navajo
The Semantics Of The Navajo Verb Base
The Navajo verb poses problems for semantic analysis that do not arise with simpler verb forms. The verb base of Navajo contains several types of morpheme: there are verb roots expressed in different stems sets, classifiers, the matic prefixes, and derivational prefixes. It is difficult to identify the roles played by each morpheme, because there are many interacting factors. Semantic analyses of the Navajo verb have tended to treat morphemes of …
The Semantics of Time: Aspectual Categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan. Melissa Axelrod
Aspectual viewpoint and situation type in Mandarian Chinese
The Parameter of Aspect
Event types in Mandarin
On the temporal contour of child language: A reply to Rispoli & Bloom
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Linguistic complexity and performance
This article reports an experimental investigation of the influence of linguistic factors on linguistic performance. The factors studied were interpretive complexity and surface length; they were expected to affect performance differentially, depending on the demands of the task. The stimulus sentences were three temporal adverbial structures wherein sentences high in interpretive complexity were low in surface length and vice versa. The experime…
A Theory of Aspectual Choice
Sentential aspect presents a situation (event, state etc.) from a particular point of view: it represents the speaker's choice of perspective on the situation. In this article, a speaker-based approach to aspect is proposed which crucially invokes abstraction, namely the idealization of different types of situations. A speaker relates an actual situation to an idealized type by using the linguistic forms associated with that type. Speakers may ch…
The acquisition of time talk: Relations between child and adult grammars
A Reichenbach-type theory is proposed that accounts for a child's early system of temporal reference and relates it directly to the adult system. This theory makes predictions different from those of a competing theory, a strong decentring hypothesis. Experimental results and data from spontaneous speech are examined, and the predictions of the first theory are borne out: young English-speaking children express notions of temporal ordering as wel…
Old and new ways not to study comprehension: Comments on Petretic & Tweney's (1977) experimental review of Shipley, Smith & Gleitman (1969)
This paper rebuts a recent article in this journal (Petretic & Tweney 1977), which claimed to overthrow prior findings of ours. We show that subject populations, methods, and scoring procedures differed materially in the two studies, logically disallowing comparative interpretation of them. We demonstrate that the original study concerned syntactic organization; and that interpretation of it, or of the recent study, as bearing on comprehension is…
The Articles in English: A Structural Analysis of Usage
Sentences in discourse: An analysis of a discourse by Bertrand Russell
In this paper I present a stylistic analysis of a short discourse by Bertrand Russell. My purpose is twofold: first, to suggest an approach to syntactically based stylistic analysis that goes beyond mere frequency counts, and, second, to draw out some linguistic ramifications of the approach
A Study in the Acquisition of Language: Free Responses to Commands
Empirical investigation of the development of language has usually focused on the child as a speaker, and primarily on his spontaneous verbalizations. From this work, a picture of the successive stages of speech of the English-speaking child begins to emerge. The recent studies of Braine 1963, Miller & Ervin 1964, Brown & Fraser 1964, and Weir 1962 describe the period in which the child begins to put two or three words together under a unified in…
Determiners and Relative Clauses in a Generative Grammer of English
This paper will discuss some ramifications of the rules for producing noun modifiers in English. Most noun modifiers can be accounted for in a generative grammar by three transformational rules. The first of these adjoins a sentence to a noun as a relative clause, and the other two form post-nominal and prenominal modifiers by the operations of deletion and order change respectively. These three transformations will be referred to as embedding ru…
A Class of Complex Modifiers in English
The linguist is concerned with meaningful generalizations about language. In writing a generative grammar, an ordered set of rules that predicts the sentences of a given language, he looks for generalizations that can be translated into economical rules. Optimally a generative grammar uses a relatively small number of general rules to predict many different structures. This paper will focus on a particular group of sentences—those containing adje…
Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
This article presents an account of temporal understanding in Mandarin Chinese. Aspectual, lexical, and adverbial information and pragmatic principles all contribute to the interpretation of temporal location. Aspectual viewpoint and situation type give information in the absence of explicit temporal forms. The main, default pattern of interpretation is deictic. The pragmatic principles are the bounded event constraint, the simplicity principle o…
A Study in the Acquisition of Language: Free Responses to Commands
Empirical investigation of the development of language has usually focused on the child as a speaker, and primarily on his spontaneous verbalizations. From this work, a picture of the successive stages of speech of the English-speaking child begins to emerge. The recent studies of Braine 1963, Miller & Ervin 1964, Brown & Fraser 1964, and Weir 1962 describe the period in which the child begins to put two or three words together under a unified in…
Determiners and Relative Clauses in a Generative Grammer of English
This paper will discuss some ramifications of the rules for producing noun modifiers in English. Most noun modifiers can be accounted for in a generative grammar by three transformational rules. The first of these adjoins a sentence to a noun as a relative clause, and the other two form post-nominal and prenominal modifiers by the operations of deletion and order change respectively. These three transformations will be referred to as embedding ru…
A Theory of Aspectual Choice
Sentential aspect presents a situation (event, state etc.) from a particular point of view: it represents the speaker's choice of perspective on the situation. In this article, a speaker-based approach to aspect is proposed which crucially invokes abstraction, namely the idealization of different types of situations. A speaker relates an actual situation to an idealized type by using the linguistic forms associated with that type. Speakers may ch…
Time in Navajo: Direct and Indirect Interpretation
This article discusses the temporal interpretation of Navajo sentences. Navajo has linguistic forms that give temporal information: future tense, past and future particles, and temporal adverbials. These forms are optional, so that many sentences contain no direct temporal information. In such cases, aspectual information gives pragmatic cues to the temporal location of the situation expressed. The key factor is boundedness: in the default case, …
Tense and temporal interpretation
Aspectual Categories in Navajo
A Class of Complex Modifiers in English
The linguist is concerned with meaningful generalizations about language. In writing a generative grammar, an ordered set of rules that predicts the sentences of a given language, he looks for generalizations that can be translated into economical rules. Optimally a generative grammar uses a relatively small number of general rules to predict many different structures. This paper will focus on a particular group of sentences—those containing adje…
Event types in Mandarin
A Class of Complex Modifiers in English
The linguist is concerned with meaningful generalizations about language. In writing a generative grammar, an ordered set of rules that predicts the sentences of a given language, he looks for generalizations that can be translated into economical rules. Optimally a generative grammar uses a relatively small number of general rules to predict many different structures. This paper will focus on a particular group of sentences—those containing adje…
Determiners and Relative Clauses in a Generative Grammer of English
This paper will discuss some ramifications of the rules for producing noun modifiers in English. Most noun modifiers can be accounted for in a generative grammar by three transformational rules. The first of these adjoins a sentence to a noun as a relative clause, and the other two form post-nominal and prenominal modifiers by the operations of deletion and order change respectively. These three transformations will be referred to as embedding ru…
A Study in the Acquisition of Language: Free Responses to Commands
Empirical investigation of the development of language has usually focused on the child as a speaker, and primarily on his spontaneous verbalizations. From this work, a picture of the successive stages of speech of the English-speaking child begins to emerge. The recent studies of Braine 1963, Miller & Ervin 1964, Brown & Fraser 1964, and Weir 1962 describe the period in which the child begins to put two or three words together under a unified in…
Sentences in discourse: An analysis of a discourse by Bertrand Russell
In this paper I present a stylistic analysis of a short discourse by Bertrand Russell. My purpose is twofold: first, to suggest an approach to syntactically based stylistic analysis that goes beyond mere frequency counts, and, second, to draw out some linguistic ramifications of the approach
The Articles in English: A Structural Analysis of Usage
Old and new ways not to study comprehension: Comments on Petretic & Tweney's (1977) experimental review of Shipley, Smith & Gleitman (1969)
This paper rebuts a recent article in this journal (Petretic & Tweney 1977), which claimed to overthrow prior findings of ours. We show that subject populations, methods, and scoring procedures differed materially in the two studies, logically disallowing comparative interpretation of them. We demonstrate that the original study concerned syntactic organization; and that interpretation of it, or of the recent study, as bearing on comprehension is…
The acquisition of time talk: Relations between child and adult grammars
A Reichenbach-type theory is proposed that accounts for a child's early system of temporal reference and relates it directly to the adult system. This theory makes predictions different from those of a competing theory, a strong decentring hypothesis. Experimental results and data from spontaneous speech are examined, and the predictions of the first theory are borne out: young English-speaking children express notions of temporal ordering as wel…
A Theory of Aspectual Choice
Sentential aspect presents a situation (event, state etc.) from a particular point of view: it represents the speaker's choice of perspective on the situation. In this article, a speaker-based approach to aspect is proposed which crucially invokes abstraction, namely the idealization of different types of situations. A speaker relates an actual situation to an idealized type by using the linguistic forms associated with that type. Speakers may ch…
Linguistic complexity and performance
This article reports an experimental investigation of the influence of linguistic factors on linguistic performance. The factors studied were interpretive complexity and surface length; they were expected to affect performance differentially, depending on the demands of the task. The stimulus sentences were three temporal adverbial structures wherein sentences high in interpretive complexity were low in surface length and vice versa. The experime…
On the temporal contour of child language: A reply to Rispoli & Bloom
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Event types in Mandarin
The Parameter of Aspect
Aspectual viewpoint and situation type in Mandarian Chinese
The Semantics Of The Navajo Verb Base
The Navajo verb poses problems for semantic analysis that do not arise with simpler verb forms. The verb base of Navajo contains several types of morpheme: there are verb roots expressed in different stems sets, classifiers, the matic prefixes, and derivational prefixes. It is difficult to identify the roles played by each morpheme, because there are many interacting factors. Semantic analyses of the Navajo verb have tended to treat morphemes of …
The Semantics of Time: Aspectual Categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan. Melissa Axelrod
Aspectual Categories in Navajo
The Parameter of Aspect
Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
This article presents an account of temporal understanding in Mandarin Chinese. Aspectual, lexical, and adverbial information and pragmatic principles all contribute to the interpretation of temporal location. Aspectual viewpoint and situation type give information in the absence of explicit temporal forms. The main, default pattern of interpretation is deictic. The pragmatic principles are the bounded event constraint, the simplicity principle o…
Time in Navajo: Direct and Indirect Interpretation
This article discusses the temporal interpretation of Navajo sentences. Navajo has linguistic forms that give temporal information: future tense, past and future particles, and temporal adverbials. These forms are optional, so that many sentences contain no direct temporal information. In such cases, aspectual information gives pragmatic cues to the temporal location of the situation expressed. The key factor is boundedness: in the default case, …
Tense and temporal interpretation
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