The Cognitive Variation of Semantic Structures

Prakash Mondal is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.

Preface viii Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction 1 2 Semantic Structures and Linguistic Universals 5 3 Towards a Unified Representation of Linguistic Meanings 29 4 Semantic Variation from Semantic Representations: Negation, Negative Polarity and Negative Concord 67 5 Semantic Variation from Semantic Representations: Modality, Tense and Plurality 94 6 Implications for Language Typology and Cognition 136 7 Concluding Remarks 183 Language Index 187 Subject Index 189