29.4895, Books: Hitting Playfully But Hard: Goldschmidt

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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:46:07
From: Karijn Hootsen [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Hitting Playfully But Hard: Goldschmidt

 


Title: Hitting Playfully But Hard 
Subtitle: Conceptual Effects of Verb-Adverb Modification in the Domain of Force 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/hitting-playfully-but-hard-conceptual-effects-of-verb-adverb-modification-in-the-domain-of-force 


Author: Anja Goldschmidt

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932915 Pages: 277 Price: Europe EURO 34.00


Abstract:

This dissertation contributes to the study of semantic well-formedness in
verb- adverb modification. Two main findings are presented. Firstly, when
agent-oriented adverbs such as playfully are used to modify verbs that express
a force exertion such as hit, a defeasible inference is triggered: the force
magnitude is understood to be low. The adverb, despite not being a force
modifier, nonetheless has an effect on the force magnitude expressed in the
verb. This inference is an instance of stereotypical enrichment and is argued
to be compositional in nature, as it cannot be traced to either the verb or
the adverb in isolation. Secondly, adverbs such as lightly, which modify the
force magnitude expressed by a verb, cannot felicitously be combined with
verbs in a resultative construction, i.e. verbs that appear with a resultative
particle or prepositional phrase such as the German einschlagen (lit. ‘to hit
in’, ‘to break’). The specification of a force result thus blocks modification
of the force magnitude.

An Event Semantic analysis is proposed that models these findings based on
underlying force vectors, which represent the force generated by the agent.
Adverbs, verbs and prepositions are analysed as having specific requirements
on force vectors, which also accounts for observations such as the selectional
requirements of verbs for certain prepositions or the unacceptability of
specific verb-adverb combinations. The underlying force vectors and other
relevant meaning components are then represented in a Frame Semantic model
which transparently spells out the conceptual underpinnings of semantic
well-formedness in verb-adverb modification
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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