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Semantics and morphosyntactic variation : qualities and the grammar of property concepts / Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 67. Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198744580
  • 0198744587
  • 9780198744597
  • 0198744595
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401/.43 23 F815
LOC classification:
  • P325.5.C6 F73 2017
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Contents:
Lexical semantics and morphosyntactic patterns -- Variation in the form of property concept sentences: The explananda -- The lexical semantic variation hypothesis -- The locus of variation in property concept sentences -- Meaning and category: semantic constraints on parts of speech -- Quality nouns and other mass nouns.
Summary: This book explores a key issue in linguistic theory, the systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical meaning in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (i) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and variation arises from idiosyncratic differences in the inventory and phonological shape of language-particular functional material, and (ii) transparency, whereby systematic variation in form arises from systematic variation in the meaning of basic lexical items.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.

Lexical semantics and morphosyntactic patterns -- Variation in the form of property concept sentences: The explananda -- The lexical semantic variation hypothesis -- The locus of variation in property concept sentences -- Meaning and category: semantic constraints on parts of speech -- Quality nouns and other mass nouns.

This book explores a key issue in linguistic theory, the systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical meaning in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (i) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and variation arises from idiosyncratic differences in the inventory and phonological shape of language-particular functional material, and (ii) transparency, whereby systematic variation in form arises from systematic variation in the meaning of basic lexical items.