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Title

  • Semantics and morphosyntactic variation : qualities and the grammar of property concepts

Summary

  • This book explores a key issue in linguistic theory, the systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical meaning in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (i) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and variation arises from idiosyncratic differences in the inventory and phonological shape of language-particular functional material, and (ii) transparency, whereby systematic variation in form arises from systematic variation in the meaning of basic lexical items.

Names

  • Francez, Itamar, author
  • Koontz-Garboden, Andrew, author

Created / Published

  • Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

Contents

  • Lexical semantics and morphosyntactic patterns -- Variation in the form of property concept sentences: The explananda -- The lexical semantic variation hypothesis -- The locus of variation in property concept sentences -- Meaning and category: semantic constraints on parts of speech -- Quality nouns and other mass nouns.

Headings

  • -  Semantics, Comparative
  • -  Eigenschaft
  • -  Morphosyntax
  • -  Kontrastive Linguistik
  • -  Kontrastive Semantik

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xiv, 171 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • P325.5.C6

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019666882

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Francez, Itamar, Author, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, . ©, 2017. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019666882/.

APA citation style:

Francez, I. & Koontz-Garboden, A. (2017) Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, . ©. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019666882/.

MLA citation style:

Francez, Itamar, Author, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, . ©, 2017. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019666882/>.