28.2391, Books: Conceptual restrictions on weakly referential constructions: Schulpen

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 12:23:13
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Conceptual restrictions on weakly referential constructions: Schulpen

Title: Conceptual restrictions on weakly referential constructions 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/conceptual-restrictions-on-weakly-referential-constructions 

Author: Maartje Schulpen

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932229 Pages: 267 Price: Europe EURO 33.00

Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the restrictions on weak defi such as in going
to the hospital, on bare predicates like in hij is kunstenaar (Dutch, lit. ‘he
is artist’), and on bare singular nouns such as in tenir pis (Catalan, lit ‘to
have apartment’). These so- called weakly referential constructions are
selective in terms of which nouns and noun-verb combinations they can contain.
These restrictions are in fact conceptual in nature. The commonly observed
intuition is that they can only express concepts that are culturally or
contextually well-established in some way, but what this means exactly has so
far remained an open question. This dissertation addresses this issue from a
semantic perspective, using adjectival modifi as a tool to probe the limits of
what can and what cannot be expressed by these constructions. By means of
empirical studies of the adjectival modifi restrictions on weak defi bare
predicates and bare singular nouns, it is shown that there is in fact a
linguistic correlate to conceptual well-establishedness, in that these
constructions have a clear preference for adjectives whose semantics is
independent of outside factors such as situations and speakers. This shows
that something as intangible as conceptual requirements can still be traced
back to lexical semantics, showing a link between linguistics and the
conceptual level.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Written In: English  (eng)

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