Verb Meaning and the Lexicon - A First Phase Syntax

Informationen zum Autor Gillian Catriona Ramchand is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tromso. Klappentext This book examines the relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences. Zusammenfassung The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the connections between lexical conceptual meaning and event structural relations! this book arrives at a modular classification of verb types within English and across languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The empirical ground; 3. A first phase syntax; 4. Deriving verb classes; 5. Paths and results; 6. Causativization; 7. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Ramchand, Gillian Catriona Ramchand
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521842402
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84240-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics