Words and the Grammar of Context - Brossura

Kay, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1881526178 ISBN 13: 9781881526179

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1997

Riassunto

Research in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided into two broad traditions. Students concerned with lexical fields and lexical domains ('lexical semanticists') have interested themselves in the paradigmatic relations of contrast that obtain among related lexical items and the substantive detail of how particular lexical items map to the nonlinguistic objects they stand for. 'Formal semanticists' (those who study the combinatorial properties of word meanings) have been mostly unconcerned with these issues, concentrating rather on how the meanings of individual words, whatever their internal structure may be and however they may be paradigmatically related to one another, combine into the meanings of phrases and sentences (and recently, to some extent, texts).

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The more or less currently accepted views of semantic compositionality, Gricean effects and indexicality are necessary, but not sufficient, to bridge the gap between the conventional significations of linguistic objects and the interpretations that sentences receive in contexts. Kay's radical contribution is his claim that the kind of theory of 'indexicality' required by the facts must be able to avail itself of the recursive (in Chomsky's sense 'creative') aspect of language.

Contenuti

Acknowledgements; Foreword Charles J. Fillmore; 1. Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical construction; the case of let alone with Charles J. Fillmore and Mary Catherine O'Connor; 2. Even; 3. At least; 4. Construction grammar; 5. Linguistic competence and folk theories of language: two English hedges; 6. The kind of/sort of construction; 7. Contextual operators: respective, respectively, and vice versa; 8. Constructional modus tollens and level of conventionality; 9. Three properties of the ideal reader; 10. The inheritance of presuppostions; References.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1881526178
• ISBN 13: 9781881526179
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 281
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile