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E-book Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts

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This book explores some of the consequences of a specific hypothesis about aparticular systematic morphosyntactic pattern, with the aim of contributing to abroader understanding of the nature of constraints on morphosyntactic variation.Our argument is that variation is constrained by lexical semantics, in ways that arefamiliar from some corners of the linguistic literature, but that are not yet generallyappreciated, particularly by formal semanticists and syntacticians.The pattern of focus (exemplified in more detail in the next section) is found inthe morphosyntactic expression of what we call (following Dixon 1982 and Thompson1989)property concept sentences. Property concept sentences are English predicativeadjectival sentences like (1) and their translational equivalents across languages. Although the form of property concept sentence in (2) is rather limited in English, aswe show throughout the book, particularly in Chapters 2 and 3, there are languages inwhich it is the primary if not the exclusive form in which property concept sentencesare attested.At its most basic level, the analytical question we are concerned with in this bookis why this variation exists—what is reponsible for the different modes of expressionof what seems like the same meaning (or set of meanings in the case of all propertyconcept sentences) across languages? Our hypothesis, which we call theLexicalSemantic Variation Hypothesis(stated and elaborated in detail in Chapter 2), is thatwhat determines whether a property concept sentence is possessive or not is the lexicalsemantics of the basic property concept lexeme on which that sentence is built. Thexicaofdifferentlanguagescanassociatebasicpropertyconceptlexemes(likewisebutalso likewisdom) with one of two closely related types of meaning, and the semanticconsequences of these associations determine whether the sentence these lexemesappear in is possessive or not.

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Judul Seri

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401.43 FRA s

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London : Oxford University Press., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

193 hlm

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English

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9780198744597

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401.43

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computer

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online resource

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Semantics

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