Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic - Rilegato

Geenhoven, Veerle Van

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ISBN 10: 157586133X ISBN 13: 9781575861333

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1998

Riassunto

This volume presents 'semantic incorporation' as an analysis accounting for many striking similarities between the semantic properties of incorporated nouns in West Greenlandic and bare plurals and split noun phrases in West Germanic language. This analysis uniformly treats these nominal expressions as predicative indefinites. At the outset, van Geenhoven explores the empirical basis for why semantic incorporation is needed. The inability of existing semantic theories of indefinites as well as current structural approaches to noun incorporation to account for the data observed is then explored, and, finally, the work presents semantic incorporation as a subtheory of indefinites. This volume will be of interest to semanticists, lexicalists, syntacticians and linguists.

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This volume presents 'semantic incorporation' as an analysis accounting for many striking similarities between the semantic properties of incorporated nouns in West Greenlandic and bare plurals and split noun phrases in West Germanic language.

Contenuti

1. Introduction; 2. Noun incorporation in West Greenlandic: some structural and (discourse) semantic aspects; 3. Setting the semantic scene; 4. Setting the syntactic Scene; 5. The semantic incorporation of predicative indefinites; 6. The interpretation and scope of indefinite descriptions; 7. Summary.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 157586133X
• ISBN 13: 9781575861333
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 263
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