Overview

This book presents a theory of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax, in which aspect plays a central role. The aspectual properties that figure in the linking between syntax and semantics are expressed through ""aspectual roles"", assigned by a verb to its arguments. A number of lexical semantic phenomena can be expressed as operations over aspectual roles, and syntactic phenomena can be classified according to whether or not they are sensitive to the presence of aspectual roles. The theory is independent of any particular model of syntax (such as GB or LFG). This theory proposes a modular relationship between aspectual role information, and conceptual or thematic representations of lexical semantic information. Language-specific generalizations about linking are argued to be expressed in thematic or conceptual representations, while universal linking generalizations are expressed in aspectual representations. Consequently, this theory has implications for language acquisition.

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Author:   Carol Tenny
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1994 ed.
Volume:   52
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.200kg
ISBN:  

9780792328636

ISBN 10:   0792328639
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   31 May 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

One: Linking Syntactic Argument Positions and Aspectual Roles.- 1.1. Introduction and Theoretical Background.- 1.2. Direct Internal Arguments.- 1.3. Indirect Internal Arguments.- 1.4. External Arguments. The Non-Measuring Constraint on External Arguments.- 1.5. Aspectual Roles.- 1.6. The Aspectual Interface Hypothesis.- Notes.- Two: Event Structure and Aspectual Roles.- 2.1. The Event Nucleus.- 2.2. Syntactic Processes Sensitive to the Event Nucleus.- 2.3. The Special Status of Arguments in Aspectual Structure.- Notes.- Three: Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles.- 3.1. Lexical Conceptual Structure.- 3.2. The Relation Between Lexical Conceptual Structures And Aspectual Roles.- 3.3. Some Phenomena Illustrating the Modularity of Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles.- Notes.- References.- Name Index.- Language Index.

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`The book ... should be read by anyone interested in the lexical valency of verbs and in the interaction of grammar, semantics and pragmatics.' The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 65/66 (1996)

The book ... should be read by anyone interested in the lexical valency of verbs and in the interaction of grammar, semantics and pragmatics. <br>(The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 65/66 (1996)

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