29.3266, Books: English Nouns: Lieber

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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:02:19
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: English Nouns: Lieber

Title: English Nouns 
Subtitle: The Ecology of Nominalization 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 150  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/morphology/english-nouns-ecology-nominalization?format=PB 

Author: Rochelle Lieber

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316613870 Pages: 207 Price: U.S. $ 49.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316613870 Pages: 207 Price: U.K. £ 39.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316613870 Pages: 207 Price: Europe EURO 46.67

Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Using extensive data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies,
2008), this groundbreaking book shows that the syntactic patterns in which
English nominalizations can be found and the range of possible readings they
can express are very different from what has been claimed in past theoretical
treatments, and therefore that previous treatments cannot be correct. Lieber
argues that the relationship between form and meaning in the nominalization
processes of English is virtually never one-to-one, but rather forms a complex
web that can be likened to a derivational ecosystem. Using the Lexical
Semantic Framework (LSF), she develops an analysis that captures the
interrelatedness and context dependence of nominal readings, and suggests that
the key to the behavior of nominalizations is that their underlying semantic
representations are underspecified in specific ways and that their ultimate
interpretation must be fixed in context using processes available within the
LSF.

Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction; 2. Terminology and methodology: 2.1
Terminology; 2.2 Methodology; Part II. Data: 3. Event/result nominalizations:
3.1 Previous claims; 3.2 Nineteen questions; 3.3 Adding it all up; 4.
Nominalizations as a derivational ecosystem: 4.1 The derivational ecosystem;
4.2 Forms and readings; 4.3 Inanimate patient nouns; 4.4 Conclusion; Part III.
Nominalization within the LSF: 5. A lexical semantic approach to
nominalization: the basics: 5.1 Recap of the LSF; 5.2 E versus R skeletons: a
first pass; 6. The eventive reading: 6.1 ATK nominalizations with the eventive
reading; 6.2 -ing nominalizations; 6.3 Conversion nouns; 6.4 A note on simplex
nouns; 6.5 Conclusion; 7. Referential readings: 7.1 Basic skeletons; 7.2
Referential readings for ATK, -ing, and conversion Ns; 7.3 Personal and
participant nominalizations; 7.4 Abstract nominalizations; 7.5 Collectives;
7.6 Underpopulated habitats; 7.7 Modal and evaluative elements of affixal
meaning; 7.8 Conclusion; 8. Nominalizations and compounding in the LSF: 8.1
Claims; 8.2 The corpus data; 8.3 The LSF analysis; 8.4 Conclusions and loose
ends; 9. Nouns in the wild.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=129694

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