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Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 17:10:52
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variations: Francez, Koontz-Garboden

 


Title: Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variations 
Subtitle: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/semantics-and-morphosyntactic-variation-9780198744597 


Author: Itamar Francez
Author: Andrew Koontz-Garboden

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198744580 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780198744597 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 39.95


Abstract:

In this volume, Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden contrast these views
as applied to the empirical domain of property concept sentences - sentences
expressing adjectival predication and their translational equivalents across
languages. They demonstrate that property concept sentences vary
systematically between possessive and predicative form, and propose a
transparentist analysis of this variation that links it to the lexical
denotations of basic property concept lexemes. At the heart of the analysis
are qualities: mass-like model theoretic objects that closely resemble scales.
The authors contrast their transparentist analysis with uniformitarian
alternatives, demonstrating its theoretical and empirical advantages. They
then show that the proposed theory of qualities can account for interesting
and novel observations in two central domains of grammatical theory: the
theory of syntactic categories, and the theory of mass nouns. The overall
results highlight the importance of the lexicon as a locus of generalizations
about the limits of crosslinguistic variation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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