Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First-Phase Syntax: 116 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 116) - Softcover

Ramchand, Gillian Catriona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521182344 ISBN 13: 9780521182348

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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'Ramchand's book offers insights with respect to the distinction between path objects and other types of objects ... a must read for anyone interested in the topic of argument structure.' Journal of Linguistics

Book 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521182344
• ISBN 13: 9780521182348
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 228