Linking by Types in the Hierarchical Lexicon - Brossura

Davis, Anthony R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1575862247 ISBN 13: 9781575862248

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 2001

Riassunto

Verbs describe actions, and their subject, objects, and other complements refer to various participants in those actions. For a verb referring to a certain type of action, what linguistic principles determine which participant is to be referred to by its subject, which by its object, and so forth? Many previous approaches to this problem have employed a set of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, to classify kinds of participants. The alternative presented in this book relies on certain basic features of verb meaning, such as causation, and on a hierarchical classification of verb meanings, to develop a simple but widely applicable set of principles that account for the observed range of verb types in human languages.

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Descrizione del libro

An alternative to thematic role analyses, this account relies on certain basic features of verb meaning, such as causation, and on a hierarchical classification of verb meanings, to develop a simple but widely applicable set of principles that account for the observed range of verb types in human languages.

Contenuti

1. Introduction; 2. Thematic roles and linking theories; 3. Lexical semantic relations and structures; 4. HPSG: a brief description and some revisions; 5. Linking constraints in the lexical hierarchy; 6. Further issues in constraint-based linking; 7. Conclusions and prospects.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575862247
• ISBN 13: 9781575862248
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 280
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