[Lexicog] Deriving verbs etc.

[Rudolph Troike]

Here is an announcement of a new book by John Anderson which uses a
semantic base for deriving grammatical categories:

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Title: A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 82
Published: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press     http://us.cambridge.org

Author: John M. Anderson
Paperback: ISBN: 0521034213 Pages: 366 Price: U.S. $ 55.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521034213 Pages: 366 Price: U.K. £ 29.99

This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the
lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are
to be distinguished notionally (semantically). It allows for there to be
peripheral members of a lexical class which may not obviously conform to
the general definition. The author proposes a notation based on semantic
features which accounts for the syntactic behaviour of classes. The book
also presents a case for considering this classification- again in rather
traditional vein- to be basic to determining the syntactic structure of
sentences. Syntactic structure is thus erected in a very restricted
fashion, without recourse to movement or empty elements.

Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I. Prelude:
1. Notionalism
2. Analogism
3. Minimalism
Part II. Fundamentals of a Notional Theory:
4. Syntactic categories and notional features
5. Relations between elements
6. Further categories: the role of feature dependencies
7. Markedness and category continuity
8. Cross-classification
9. Gradience and second-order categories
10. Secondary categories
11. Non-complements
Part III. The Syntax of Categories:
12. Verbal valencies
13. The content of the functor category
14. The basic syntax of predications
15. The formation of ditransitives
16. Variation in argument structure
17. Verbals as arguments
18. The structure of primary arguments
References
Index
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Relevant to our discussion is the abstract of a dissertation just posted
to Linguist List. Here is the link:

   From: Karim Achab < kachab at uottawa.ca >
   Subject: Internal Structure of Verb Meaning: A study of verbs of (change of)
                  State in Tamazight (Berber)

   http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-153.html

    Rudy

    Rudy Troike







 
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