Semantics and morphosyntactic variation : qualities and the grammar of property concepts / Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden
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TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017Copyright date: Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 9780198744597
- P 325.5.C6 .F845 2017
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DLSU-D GRADUATE STUDIES Graduate Studies | P 325.5.C6 .F845 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3CIR201766079 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-59) 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
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