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Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 13:44:45
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis: Sabar

 


Title: Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis 
Subtitle: The case of English "look", "see", "seem" and "appear" 
Series Title: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 75  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/sfsl.75 


Author: Nadav Sabar

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264343 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264343 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264343 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200426 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200426 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200426 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form "look". The work is
innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of an
invariant meaning – hitherto found primarily in grammar – is equally operative
in core vocabulary items like "look" and "see". The upshot is that grammar and
lexicon are both amenable to synchronic monosemic analysis. The invariant
meaning proposed for "look" explains the full range of its distribution,
without the need to posit as linguistic units ‘look-noun’ and ‘look-verb’,
‘look-visual’ and ‘look-intellectual’, or constructions such as "have-a-look",
"look-like", etc. The analysis places look in opposition with "see", "seem"
and "appear" for which tentative meanings are posited as well. The hypotheses
are supported through qualitative analyses of attested examples and
quantitative predictions tested in a massive corpus. These predictions offer
new knowledge about the distribution of "look", "see" and other forms that may
provide useful for other scholars.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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