Verb Meaning and the Lexicon

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-84240-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 116, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the connections between lexical conceptual meaning and event structural relations, this book arrives at a modular classification of verb types within English and across languages. Ramchand argues that lexical encyclopedic content and event structural aspects of meaning need to be systematically distinguished, and that thematic and aspectual relations belong to the latter domain of meaning. The book proposes a syntactic decompositional view of core verbal meaning, and sets out to account for the variability and systematicity of argument structure realisation across verb types. It also proposes a novel view of lexical insertion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramchand, Gillian Catriona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. The empirical ground; 3. A first phase syntax; 4. Deriving verb classes; 5. Paths and results; 6. Causativization; 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Ramchand, Gillian Catriona
GILLIAN CATRIONA RAMCHAND is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tromsø.