<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear colleagues, <br></div>I'm pleased to announce the publication of:<br><br></div>Word Meaning and Syntax-- Approaches to the Interface<br></div>by Stephen Wechsler (Chapter 6 'The lexical-constructional debate' is coauthored by Stefan Müller)<br></div></div>Oxford University Press<br></div>2015; 376 pages<br><div><a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199279883.do" target="_blank">http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199279883.do
</a><br><a href="http://global.oup.com/academic/product/word-meaning-and-syntax-9780199279883">http://global.oup.com/academic/product/word-meaning-and-syntax-9780199279883</a><br>ISBN-13: 9780199279883 (hb) / 9780199279890 (pb)<br><span class=""><br></span></div><div>This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and
syntax. It approaches the interface from both sides of the
relation, connecting the philosophical, psychological, and linguistic literature on
word meaning, on the one hand, with the theory of syntactic argument realization on the other. The book begins with a look at problems of word meaning proper: polysemy, vagueness, normativity (lexical entrainment effects, etc.), prototype effects, coercion, sense extension, and so on. Then it surveys a range of views on the mapping between words and syntax, with
an emphasis on lexical approaches to argument structure, and addresses various theoretical controversies concerning lexical decomposition, neo-davidsonianism, lexicalism, and so on. <br><br>Chapter 6 'The lexical-constructional debate', which is coauthored with Stefan Müller, is an extended argument in favor of lexical valence structures and lexical rules. We review familiar arguments from the history of the field and also add some new ones. That chapter appeared in revised form last year as a target article in the journal Theoretical Linguistics under the title 'Lexical Approaches to Argument Structure' (Theoretical Linguistics 2014, 40(1–2), 1–76). The Theoretical Linguistics volume also contains commentaries by Afra Alishahi, Hans C. Boas, Adele E. Goldberg, László Kálmán, Paul Kay, and Gregory M. Kobele, as well as our reply to those commentaries.
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