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

Ramchand, Gillian Catriona

ISBN 10: 0521842409 / ISBN 13: 9780521842402

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 116)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521842409
• ISBN 13: 9780521842402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

Gillian Catriona Ramchand is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tromso.