Verb Meaning and the Lexicon
Subtitle: A First Phase Syntax (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521842402
Subjects: Semantics (meaning); Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Generative grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general; Lexicology; Verb; Language
Description: "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 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 realization across verb types. It also proposes a novel view of lexical insertion."--Jacket.