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The end of argument structure? /
The papers included in this volume explore current issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical meaning and the morphosyntax of sentences. A central question in the study of language concerns the mechanisms by which the participants in an event described by a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2012.
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| Colección: | Syntax and semantics ;
v. 38. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The papers included in this volume explore current issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical meaning and the morphosyntax of sentences. A central question in the study of language concerns the mechanisms by which the participants in an event described by a sentence come to occupy their positions and acquire their interpretation. The papers confront two competing approaches to this question. A long-standing approach is based on the assumption that it is the lexical meaning of a verb that determines, albeit indirectly, the basic properties of sentence structure at the level of verbal meaning, including asymmetric relations, thematic roles, case, and agreement. An alternative approach claims that, to a large extent, the syntax itself establishes possible verbal meanings on the basis of the legitimate relations that can exist between syntactic heads, complements, and specifiers. |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780523774 1780523777 9781780523767 1780523769 1280394498 9781280394492 9786613572417 6613572411 |
| ISSN: | 0092-4563 ; |