Inaug.-diss.--Freiburg i. Br. / Lebenslauf. "Fur Anordnung und Behandlung des Stoffes waren mir folgende werke vorbildlich": p. [81].

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-110).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Linguistics." Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-394).

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Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 219-223).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Linguistics." Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-228).

Grammatical relations have always constituted a primary focus of attention in the study of language. Within the last three decades, the topicality of this trend has increasingly been determined by the quest for a universal characterization of the language faculty which has shaped the goals and directives of most current works in theoretical linguistics. Although the realization patterns and syntactic functionality of grammatical relations are subject to cross-linguistic variation, studies in comparative grammar have provided suggestive evidence that the range of variation found can often be contained within the limits fixed by a discrete set of parameters. The investigation of these parameters has broached the possibility of a universal specification of the nature of grammatical relations. This thesis proposes that such a specification should be achieved by establishing regularities in the syntax-semantics interface within a constraint-based approach to linguistic analysis that integrates a precise computational interpretation. In keeping with this objective, a unification-based categorial grammar framework is developed which incorporates the semantic insights of a Neo-Davidsonian approach to verb semantics and predicate-argument combination, where thematic roles are defined as clusters of entailments of verb meanings. This framework is extended with an integrated approach to argument selection and selection change. Properties of the resulting system are demonstrated with respect to a variety of natural language phenomena concerning grammatical function changing, unaccusativity and clitic dislocation.

Certain critics claim that Paul Valery has, in his Cahiers (Notebooks), opened the way to a new study of man by approaching the subject with methods derived from the natural sciences. The present work investigates these claims by examining closely all the scientific analogies which Valery uses to clarify his analysis of the mental mechanism, in order to determine the relevance of these analogies, as well as their effectiveness. A comparison is drawn between the attempt of the poet and the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski, which also professes to ground its knowledge of man only on scientific and not philosophical foundations. / The search for bases taken from science yields few convincing results; thus, Valery's attempt appears to have failed. However, in a philosophical context this attempt is regained. The failure of a "science of man" is tempered by a "phenomenology of power"!

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brandeis University, 2003. / "UMI:3073877." Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-390).