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 an interesting view of lexical insertion.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521842402
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96581707
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Data Analysis
Author
Gillian Catriona Ramchand
Publication Name
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: a First Phase Syntax
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
228 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
510g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gillian Catriona Ramchand
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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