Verb Meaning and the Lexicon by Gillian Ramchand
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.
Ramchand, Gillian Catriona: - Gillian Catriona Ramchand is Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for Language and Culture at the University of Tromsü¾Ž†˜¼-the Arctic University of Norway; she was previously University Lecturer in General Linguistics at Oxford University. She is President of GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) and the author of Aspect and Predication: The Semantics of Argument Structure and Verbal Meaning and the Lexicon.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521182348 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521182344 |
| Title | Verb Meaning and the Lexicon |
| Author | Gillian Ramchand |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Linguistics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2011-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
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